Talk:Linkage disequilibrium

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I removed the statement "and their genetic distance", since it is not relevant to LD. Lower linkage disequilibrium is expected in data sets for loci the farther they are apart. However, LD reflects covariance between alleles thereby comparing joint occurence with a product distribution - irrespective of distance. -sboehringer

I reverted the wording to "non-random association" as this is the standard textbook definition. See Hartl & Clark Principles of Population Genetics 3rd edition 1997. Correlation may imply a particular measure of non-random association, whereas there are many measures of LD. --Lexor|Talk 05:01, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Isn't there some way to reformat the 2x2 table of haplotype frequencies? The way it is, the entries on the rows abut, so that D is immediately followed by x_21 when in fact they are in different expressions. I tried some ways of putting blanks in between but none worked. Felsenst 23:40, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I added a section on analysis software and added links to Haploview and PyPop. Jrandall 22:02, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

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