Article
A sliding-window weighted linkage disequilibrium test.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Sept 2006
Yang Hsin-Chou, Lin Chin-Yu, Fann Cathy S J
Abstract excerpt
Multilocus linkage disequilibrium (LD) tests that consider inter-marker (LD) are more powerful than single-locus tests when disease etiology is contributed simultaneously by several linked and correlated loci. However, inclusion of redundant non-informative markers may result in reduced testing power and/or inflated false-positive rate, therefore selection of proper marker sets is important in such tests. We...
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