Detecting marker-disease association by testing for Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium at a marker locus
Detecting marker-disease association by testing for Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium at a marker locus
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DOI:
10.1086/302114
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发表时间:
1998-11-01
影响因子:
9.8
通讯作者:
Weir, BS
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作者:
Nielsen, DM;Ehm, MG;Weir, BS
We review and extend a recent suggestion that line-scale localization of a disease-susceptibility locus for a complex disease be done on the basis of deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium among affected individuals. This deviation is driven by linkage disequilibrium between disease and marker loci in the whole population and requires a heterogeneous genetic basis for the disease. A finding of marker-locus Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium therefore implies disease heterogeneity and marker-disease linkage disequilibrium, Although a lack of departure of Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium at marker loci implies that disease susceptibility-weighted linkage disequilibria are zero, given disease heterogeneity, it does not follow that the usual measures of linkage disequilibrium are zero. For disease-susceptibility loci with more than two alleles, therefore, care is needed in the drawing of inferences from marker Hardy-Wreinberg disequilibria.