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HapMap tagSNP transferability in multiple populations: general guidelines.
Genomics - 1 Jul 2008
Xing Jinchuan, Witherspoon David J, Watkins W Scott, Zhang Yuhua, Tolpinrud Whitney, Jorde Lynn B
Abstract excerpt
Linkage disequilibrium (LD) has received much attention recently because of its value in localizing disease-causing genes. Due to the extensive LD between neighboring loci in the human genome, it is believed that a subset of the single nucleotide polymorphisms in a region (tagSNPs) can be selected to capture most of the remaining SNP variants. In this study, we examined LD patterns and HapMap tagSNP...
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- Animals
- Chromosome Mapping
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Diseases, Inborn
- Genome, Human
- Human Genome Project
- Humans
