Genomic Scans of Zygotic Disequilibrium and Epistatic SNPs in HapMap Phase III Populations.

ABSTRACT: Previous theory indicates that zygotic linkage disequilibrium (LD) is more informative than gametic or composite digenic LD in revealing natural population history. Further, the difference between the composite digenic and maximum zygotic LDs can be used to detect epistatic selection for fitness. Here we corroborate the theory by investigating genome-wide zygotic LDs in HapMap phase III human populations. Results show that non-Africa populations have much more significant zygotic LDs than do Africa populations. Africa populations (ASW, LWK, MKK, and YRI) possess more significant zygotic LDs for the double-homozygotes (DAABB) than any other significant zygotic LDs (DAABb, DAaBB, and DAaBb), while non-Africa populations generally have more significant DAaBb's than any other significant zygot

SUBMITTER: Hu XS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4488364 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature