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Genetic variation at the mouse Tlr4locus
The collection of sibling pairs and analysis of mean proportion of alleles shared that are identical (by descent or state) by use of a highly polymorphic panel of genetic markers has come to be a standard protocol for detecting linkage of a disease susceptibility locus to a chromosomal region.
This is a limitation of the microarray technology that should be considered when referring to a particular locus as divergent.
Alternatively, this site, which contains a recent human-specific segmental duplication of the CHRNA7 locus, may be a preferential site of breakage, which allowed the pericentric inversion to occur.
These theta values eliminate linkage to only 0.8 cM of the < 3 cM FEOM1 critical region and, therefore, this locus cannot be formally ruled out.