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 ...

The isolated population of the Faroe Islands has a history of recent expansion after being limited to a small size for centuries. Such an isolated population may be ideal for linkage disequilibrium ...

Despite growing interest in the use of transmission/disequilibrium test (TDT)-type analysis in association studies, there has been surprisingly scant attention paid ...

Introduction: Families of admixed ancestry are routinely excluded from traditional linkage analysis (LOD score) or are analyzed as deriving from a homogeneous population of the proband's ethnicity.