Mapping Genes by Drift-Generated Linkage Disequilibrium

Mapping genes through the use of linkage disequilibrium generated by genetic drift: 'drift mapping' in small populations with no demographic expansion.

Linkage disequilibrium has been a powerful tool in identifying rare disease alleles in human populations. To date, most research has been directed to isolated populations which have undergone a bottleneck followed by rapid exponential expansion. While this strategy works well for rare diseases in which all disease alleles in the population today are clonal copies of some common ancestral allele...

Bolck Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping

1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Models and methods 3.1. Haplotype block characterization 3.2. Measure of haplotype block LD 3.3. Test statistic and power calculation 3.4. Population genetic model of haplotype block 4. Results 4.1. Haplotype block LD measure 4.2. Power of the haplotype block LD mapping 4.3. Mapping 5. Discussion 6. Appendix 6.1. Appendix A 6.2. Appendix B 6.3. Appendix C 7. Refer...

Shaking the tree: mapping complex disease genes with linkage disequilibrium.

Much effort and expense are being spent internationally to detect genetic polymorphisms contributing to susceptibility to complex human disease. Concomitantly, the technology for detecting and genotyping single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) has undergone rapid development, yielding extensive catalogues of these polymorphisms across the genome. Population-based maps of the correlations amongst...

Linkage disequilibrium and the mapping of human disease genes

Identification of human disease genes can be accomplished by two strategies: functional cloning and positional cloning. Genetic mapping is the localization of genes underlying phenotypes on the basis of correlation with DNA variation, without the need for prior hypotheses about biological function and the simplest form, called linkage analysis. The ability to clone and sequence DNA made it poss...

linkage disequilibrium and association mapping