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Linkage disequilibrium in wild mice.
PLoS genetics - 1 Aug 2007
Laurie Cathy C, Nickerson Deborah A, Anderson Amy D, Weir Bruce S, Livingston Robert J, Dean Matthew D, Smith Kimberly L, Schadt Eric E, Nachman Michael W
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Crosses between laboratory strains of mice provide a powerful way of detecting quantitative trait loci for complex traits related to human disease. Hundreds of these loci have been detected, but only a small number of the underlying causative genes have been identified. The main difficulty is the extensive linkage disequilibrium (LD) in intercross progeny and the slow process of fine-scale mapping by traditional...
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