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Quantification And Visualization Of Ld Patterns And Identification Of Haplotype Blocks, Yan Wang, Sandrine Dudoit
Quantification And Visualization Of Ld Patterns And Identification Of Haplotype Blocks, Yan Wang, Sandrine Dudoit
U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series
Classical measures of linkage disequilibrium (LD) between two loci, based only on the joint distribution of alleles at these loci, present noisy patterns. In this paper, we propose a new distance-based LD measure, R, which takes into account multilocus haplotypes around the two loci in order to exploit information from neighboring loci. The LD measure R yields a matrix of pairwise distances between markers, based on the correlation between the lengths of shared haplotypes among chromosomes around these markers. Data analysis demonstrates that visualization of LD patterns through the R matrix reveals more deterministic patterns, with much less noise, than …