Linkage disequilibrium is the association between alleles in the allele distributions across linked loci and is intermediate in character between the dependence and the independence of allele ...

Objective: Statistical epistasis refers to a departure from additivity on some scale related to a trait. The implication of it may vary due to the choice of scale. In this paper, we focus on ...

Linkage disequilibrium (LD) is the nonrandom association of alleles of different loci. There is no single best statistic that quantifies the extent of LD. Several statistics have been proposed that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Objectives: Describe the inflation in nonparametric multipoint LOD scores due to inter-marker linkage disequilibrium (LD) across many markers ...