ArchiLD: hierarchical visualization of linkage disequilibrium in human populations.

Linkage disequilibrium (LD) is an essential metric for selecting single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to use in genetic studies and identifying causal variants from significant tag SNPs. The explosion in the number of polymorphisms that can now be genotyped by commercial arrays makes the interpret...

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Main Authors: Rossella Melchiotti, Olaf Rötzschke, Michael Poidinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3897757?pdf=render