Abstract
Summary The principles of linkage detection and measurement are traced from the first discovery of linkage to its present‐day use in human genetics. Some indications are given of their success and of the present problems and challenges facing them.
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Linkage (software)Genetic linkageGeneticsBiologyComputational biologyData scienceComputer scienceGene
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- 1986
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- review
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 293-311
- Citations
- 15
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Cedric A. B. Smith
(1986).
The development of human linkage analysis.
Annals of Human Genetics
, 50
(4)
, 293-311.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1809.1986.tb01752.x
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- 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1986.tb01752.x