title: Approximately independent linkage disequilibrium blocks in human populations.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  METHODS
  code: http://bitbucket.org/nygcresearch/ldetect; data: http://bitbucket.org/nygcresearch/ldetect-data.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  tberisa@nygenome.org
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: New York Genome Center, New York, NY 10013, USA and.
authors.forename: Tomaz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Berisa
authors.affiliation: New York Genome Center, New York, NY 10013, USA and Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Pickrell
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D005819:Genetic Markers; D015894:Genome, Human; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D006801:Humans; D015810:Linkage Disequilibrium; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers