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  • Linkage Disequilibrium, Human Population Diversity, and the Hemoglobin Gene

    Linkage Disequilibrium, Human Population Diversity, and the Hemoglobin Gene

    Introduction Linkage disequilibrium is a somewhat rudimentary, but effective way to measure of the evolution of a population. It is, essentially, a quantification of the association between alleles (which, in this case, includes single nucleotide variants) as they exist in a population. In a fixed, non-evolving population, there should, theoretically be no association, and all…