Detecting linkage disequilibrium in bacterial populations.

doi:10.1093/genetics/150.4.1341

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Detecting linkage disequilibrium in bacterial populations.

Genetics - 1 Dec 1998

Haubold B, Travisano M, Rainey P B, Hudson R R

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The distribution of the number of pairwise differences calculated from comparisons between n haploid genomes has frequently been used as a starting point for testing the hypothesis of linkage equilibrium. For this purpose the variance of the pairwise differences, VD, is used as a test statistic t...

Topics

Analysis of Variance
Bacillus subtilis
Bradyrhizobium
Escherichia coli
Genetic Variation
Gram-Negative Bacteria
Linkage Disequilibrium
Mathematics
Monte Carlo Method
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Rhizobium leguminosarum

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