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Priya Duggal1, Elizabeth M Gillanders, Rasika A Mathias
1Inherited Disease Research Branch, NHGRI/NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA. pduggal@mail.nih.gov
Abstract:
We compared seven different tagging single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) programs in 10 regions with varied amounts of linkage disequilibrium (LD) and physical distance. We used the Collaborative Studies on the Genetics of Alcoholism dataset, part of the Genetic Analysis Workshop 14. We show that in regions with moderate to strong LD these programs are relatively consistent, despite different parameters and methods. In addition, we compared the selected SNPs in a multipoint linkage analysis for one region with strong LD. As the number of selected SNPs increased, the LOD score, mean information content, and type I error also increased.
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