Approximately independent linkage disequilibrium blocks in human populations.

ABSTRACT

UNLABELLED We present a method to identify approximately independent blocks of linkage disequilibrium in the human genome. These blocks enable automated analysis of multiple genome-wide association studies. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION code http//bitbucket.org/nygcresearch/ldetect; data http//bitbucket.org/nygcresearch/ldetect-data. CONTACT tberisa@nygenome.org SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.