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Linkage detection by the Affected-Pedigree-Member method: What is really tested?

✍ Scribed by Dr. Marie-Claude Babron; Maria Martinez; Catherine Bonaïti-Pellié; Françoise Clerget-Darpoux


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
308 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
0741-0395

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✦ Synopsis


We show that the null hypothesis in the Affected-Pedigree-Member (APM) method is composed of two sub-hypotheses: no linkage and correct marker allele distribution. As a result, the APM method is not robust to misspecification of marker allele frequencies. 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.