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Infinium Assay for Large-scale SNP Genotyping Applications
Published on: November 19, 2013
GOLD--graphical overview of linkage disequilibrium
1Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK. goncalo@well.ox.ac.uk
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
|June 8, 2000
Abstract
Summary:
We describe a software package that provides a graphical summary of linkage disequilibrium in human genetic data. It allows for the analysis of family data and is well suited to the analysis of dense genetic maps.
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http://www.well.ox.ac.uk/asthma/GOLD CONTACT: goncalo@well.ox.ac.uk
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