Linkage disequilibrium of evolutionarily conserved regions in the human genome

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The strong linkage disequilibrium (LD) recently found in genic or exonic regions of the human genome demonstrated that LD can be increased by evolutionary mechanisms that select for functionally important loci. This suggests that LD...

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Main Authors: Johnson Todd A, Ohnishi Yozo, Sekine Akihiro, Kato Mamoru, Tanaka Toshihiro, Nakamura Yusuke, Tsunoda Tatsuhiko
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado: BMC 2006-12-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Acceso en liña:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/7/326