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Linkage disequilibrium — understanding the evolutionary past and mapping the medical future | Nature Reviews Genetics

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Linkage disequilibrium was once a concept used little outside population genetics. However, in the genomics era it has become fundamental to our understanding of the genetic variation that is behind complex traits and evolutionary change.

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