A systematic approach to mapping recessive disease genes in individuals from outbred populations.

The identification of recessive disease-causing genes by homozygosity mapping is often restricted by lack of suitable consanguineous families. To overcome these limitations, we apply homozygosity mapping to single affected individuals from outbred populations. In 72 individuals of 54 kindred ascerta...

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Main Authors: Friedhelm Hildebrandt, Saskia F Heeringa, Franz Rüschendorf, Massimo Attanasio, Gudrun Nürnberg, Christian Becker, Dominik Seelow, Norbert Huebner, Gil Chernin, Christopher N Vlangos, Weibin Zhou, John F O'Toole, Bethan E Hoskins, Matthias T F Wolf, Bernward G Hinkes, Hassan Chaib, Shazia Ashraf, Dominik S Schoeb, Bugsu Ovunc, Susan J Allen, Virginia Vega-Warner, Eric Wise, Heather M Harville, Robert H Lyons, Joseph Washburn, James Macdonald, Peter Nürnberg, Edgar A Otto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2621355?pdf=render