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Linkage equilibrium and disequilibrium in human population studies.
Annals of human biology - 1 Jan 2000
Mourant A E
Abstract excerpt
It is suggested that in such genetic systems as HLA, characterized by sets of alleles at several closely linked loci, the existence of a state of linkage disequilibrium in a population indicates that this population is the result of recent hybridization between two or more populations, which may previously each have been in a state of equilibrium. Disequilibrium may, however, be modified by natural selection and...
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