The detection of linkage disequilibrium in molecular sequence data.

Abstract excerpt

Studies of genetic variation in natural populations at the sequence level usually show that most polymorphic sites are very asymmetrical in allele frequencies, with the rarer allele at a site near fixation. When the rarer allele at a site is present only a few times in the sample, say below five representatives, it becomes very difficult to detect linkage disequilibrium between sites from tests of association....

Topics

• Alleles
• Base Sequence
• Genetic Variation
• Genetics, Population
• Linkage Disequilibrium
• Models, Genetic