The Use of Incompletely Linked Markers in Genetic Counseling: Accuracy versus Linkage
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Human Heredity
- Vol. 35 (2) , 73-88
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000153521
Abstract
The utility of incompletely linked, selectively neutral, multiallelic markers for tracing the transmission of associated genes is examined theoretically for all genetic counseling situations in which the diagnosis of deleterious progeny is in question. The analysis focuses on the fraction of progeny from each 2 locus mating which can be diagnosed with minimal occuracy A solely on the basis of the marker alleles transmitted, as a function of A, the recombination fraction between the loci, and the gametic distribution in the population. Together the results allow a quantitative assessment of the diagnostic value of a given marker-target locus association to the total population of at-risk individuals.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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