title: Segregation and linkage analysis.
abstract: Computer programs are available in the software package SAGE to perform a variety of segregation and linkage analyses used by human geneticists. These methods are designed specifically to uncover major gene segregation in pedigree data coming from non-inbred populations. With the aid of a closely linked polymorphic marker, they can detect a locus that contributes as little as 10% to the variation of a quantitative trait in a pedigree sample of several hundred individuals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biometry and Genetics, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans 70112.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Elston
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001947:Breeding; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software