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GENETICS
Volume 182, Issue 3, Pages 839-844Publisher
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.093153
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Linkage disequilibrium is often measured by two statistics, D and r, which call be interpreted as the covariance and the correlation between loci and across gametes. When data consist of diploid genotypes, however, gametes cannot be identified. A variety of iterative statistical methods are used in such cases, all Of Which assume random Mating. Previous work has shown that D and r call be expressed as covariances and correlations across diploid genotypes, provided that. mating is random. We show here that this result. also holds approximately when mating is nonrandom. This provides a means of estimating these parameters without iteration and without assuming random mating. This estimator is nearly as accurate as the widely used EM estimator and is many times faster.
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