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The limits of fine-scale mapping.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 May 2009
Smith Lucian P, Kuhner Mary K
Abstract excerpt
When a novel genetic trait arises in a population, it introduces a signal in the haplotype distribution of that population. Through recombination that signal's history becomes differentiated from the DNA distant to it, but remains similar to the DNA close by. Fine-scale mapping techniques rely on this differentiation to pinpoint trait loci. In this study, we analyzed the differentiation itself to better...
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