Analysis of Pedigree Data in Populations with Multiple Ancestries: Strategies for Dealing with Admixture in Caribbean Hispanic Families from the ADSP

Multipoint linkage analysis is an important approach for localizing disease-associated loci in pedigrees. Linkage analysis, however, is sensitive to misspecification of marker allele frequencies. Pedigrees from recently-admixed populations are particularly susceptible to this problem because of the...

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Published in:Genet Epidemiol
Main Authors: Nafikov, Rafael A., Nato, Alejandro Q., Sohi, Harkirat, Wang, Bowen, Brown, Lisa, Horimoto, Andrea R., Vardarajan, Badri N., Barral, Sandra M., Tosto, Giuseppe, Mayeux, Richard P., Thornton, Timothy A., Blue, Elizabeth, Wijsman, Ellen M.
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Language:Inglês
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6160322/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29862559
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gepi.22133
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