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Exploring causality via identification of SNPs or haplotypes responsible for a linkage signal.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Nov 2007
Biernacka Joanna M, Cordell Heather J
Abstract excerpt
In a small chromosomal region, a number of polymorphisms may be both linked to and associated with a disease. Distinguishing the potential causal sites from those indirectly associated due to linkage disequilibrium (LD) with a causal site is an important problem. This problem may be approached by determining which of the associations can explain the observed linkage signal. Recently, several methods have been...
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