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Using the variability of linkage disequilibrium between subpopulations to infer sweeps and epistatic selection in a diverse panel of chickens.
Heredity - 1 Feb 2016
Beissinger T M, Gholami M, Erbe M, Weigend S, Weigend A, de Leon N, Gianola D, Simianer H
Abstract excerpt
A whole-genome scan for identifying selection acting on pairs of linked loci is proposed and implemented. The scan is based on , one of Ohta's 1982 measures of between-population linkage disequilibrium (LD). An approximate empirical null distribution for the statistic is suggested. Although the partitioning of LD into between-population components was originally used to investigate epistatic selection, we...
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