Article
Detecting linkage disequilibrium in the presence of locus heterogeneity.
Annals of human genetics - 1 May 2006
Wang D, Huang J
Abstract excerpt
Locus heterogeneity is a common phenomenon in complex diseases and is one of the most important factors that affect the power of either linkage or linkage disequilibrium (LD) analysis. In linkage analysis, the heterogeneity LOD score (HLOD) rather than LOD itself is often used. However, the existing methods for detecting linkage disequilibrium, such as the TDT and many of its variants, do not take into account...
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