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Testing for heterogeneity of recombination fraction values in Human Genetics
Author(s) -
SMITH CEDRIC A. B.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
annals of human genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1469-1809
pISSN - 0003-4800
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1963.tb00210.x
Subject(s) - recombination fraction , locus (genetics) , genetics , recombination , fraction (chemistry) , biology , human genetics , gene , gene mapping , chemistry , organic chemistry , chromosome
SUMMARY A method is described for the detection of heterogeneity of recombination fraction values in human data. It uses a comparison of likelihood values. It is applied to the data on elliptocytosis and rhesus previously considered by Morton (1956), together with some new data reported by Bannerman & Renwick (1962). Morton's conclusion that there exists heterogeneity is supported by the new test. The data appear to be best explained by the hypothesis that the families divide themselves into two groups. In the first group, which amounts to something between 20 and 90 % of the whole, the locus for elliptocytosis is closely linked with that for rhesus, the recombination fraction being between 0.01 and 0.1. In the remaining families the two loci are unlinked.