Linkage Disequilibrium Inflates Type I Error Rates in Multipoint Linkage Analysis when Parental Genotypes Are Missing
Author(s) -
Abee L. Boyles,
William K. Scott,
Eden R. Martin,
Silke Schmidt,
YiJu Li,
Allison E. AshleyKoch,
Meredyth P. Bass,
Michael A. Schmidt,
Margaret A. PericakVance,
Marcy C. Speer,
Elizabeth R. Hauser
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
human heredity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.423
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1423-0062
pISSN - 0001-5652
DOI - 10.1159/000087122
Subject(s) - linkage disequilibrium , genetics , linkage (software) , genetic linkage , biology , allele frequency , minor allele frequency , population , haplotype , genotype , allele , gene , demography , sociology
Describe the inflation in nonparametric multipoint LOD scores due to inter-marker linkage disequilibrium (LD) across many markers with varied allele frequencies.
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