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Identifying mutation regions for closely related individuals without a known pedigree.
BMC bioinformatics - 25 Jun 2012
Cui Wenjuan, Wang Lusheng
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Linkage analysis is the first step in the search for a disease gene. Linkage studies have facilitated the identification of several hundred human genes that can harbor mutations leading to a disease phenotype. In this paper, we study a very important case, where the sampled individuals are closely related, but the pedigree is not given. This situation happens very often when the individuals share a...
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