Progress towards completing the human linkage map.

doi:10.1016/0959-437x(91)80049-r

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Progress towards completing the human linkage map.

Current opinion in genetics & development - 1 Jun 1991

Kidd K K

Abstract excerpt

Genetic linkage maps order polymorphic loci (markers) along a chromosome and provide a measure of distance that is an inherently statistical measure of the frequency of meiotic recombination and has no simple relationship to DNA length in Mb. Few accurate and dense maps now exist. Maps with marke...

Topics

Alleles
Chromosome Mapping
Genetic Linkage
Genetic Markers
Human Genome Project
Humans
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphism, Genetic
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid

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