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Linkage Disequilibrium

"Linkage Disequilibrium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Nonrandom association of linked genes. This is the tendency of the alleles of two separate but already linked loci to be found together more frequently than would be expected by chance alone.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Linkage Disequilibrium" by people in this website by year, and whether "Linkage Disequilibrium" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 331 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 28 publications in 2006
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