Needles in the haystack: identifying individuals present in pooled genomic data.

Recent publications have described and applied a novel metric that quantifies the genetic distance of an individual with respect to two population samples, and have suggested that the metric makes it possible to infer the presence of an individual of known genotype in a sample for which only the mar...

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Main Authors: Rosemary Braun, William Rowe, Carl Schaefer, Jinghui Zhang, Kenneth Buetow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-10-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2747273?pdf=render