Background: Copy number variations (CNVs) and polymorphisms (CNPs) have only recently gained the genetic community's attention. Conservative estimates have shown that CNVs an...
Louis-Philippe Lemieux Perreault, Gregor U. Andelf...
Background: Genomic deletions and duplications are important in the pathogenesis of diseases, such as cancer and mental retardation, and have recently been shown to occur frequent...
Background: The power of haplotype-based methods for association studies, identification of regions under selection, and ancestral inference, is well-established for diploid organ...
Shu-Yi Su, Jonathan White, David J. Balding, Lachl...
Background: Recent studies have shown that copy number variations (CNVs) are frequent in higher eukaryotes and associated with a substantial portion of inherited and acquired risk...
Xiaowu Gai, Juan C. Perin, Kevin Murphy, Ryan O'Ha...
Background: Despite the recent success of genome-wide association studies in identifying novel loci contributing effects to complex human traits, such as type 2 diabetes and obesi...