Approximately independent linkage disequilibrium blocks in human populations.

Bioinformatics

New York Genome Center, New York, NY 10013, USA and Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.

Published: January 2016

Unlabelled: We present a method to identify approximately independent blocks of linkage disequilibrium in the human genome. These blocks enable automated analysis of multiple genome-wide association studies.

Availability And Implementation: code: http://bitbucket.org/nygcresearch/ldetect; data: http://bitbucket.org/nygcresearch/ldetect-data.

Contact: tberisa@nygenome.org

Supplementary Information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4731402PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv546DOI Listing

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