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Abstract
A two-locus disease model is presented in which a marker locus interacts epistatically with another unlinked trait to cause the disease. Such a model can lead to disease-marker associations and distortions in the sharing of marker types among affected family members. These effects are quantified. In the case of HLA-disease associations, this model is presented as an alternative to the "hitchhiking" theory of tight linkage leading to linkage disequilibrium.Mesh:
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Year: 1981 PMID: 6941695 PMCID: PMC1685026
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Hum Genet ISSN: 0002-9297 Impact factor: 11.025