GOLD

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

Full Name

Graphical Overview of Linkage Disequilibrium

Version

November 2001

Description

A software package that provides a graphical summary of linkage disequilibrium in human genetic data. The graphical summary is well suited to the analysis of dense genetic maps, where contingency tables are cumbersome to interpret. An interface to the Simwalk2 application allows for the analysis of family data.

Author

  • G R Abecasis

  • William Cookson (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK)

    URL

    http://www.sph.umich.edu/csg/abecasis/GOLD/

    Reference

    Abecasis, Cookson (2000), Bioinformatics, 16(2):182-183.