Because of transitivity, as we discussed earlier, many chromosomes may become linked into any one linkage group. If the strength of evidence for assignment is good, assign the markers in question to their respective chromosomes. See the description in the reference section for details. More Output Follows . D017 - assigned to chrom15 at LOD 3.1 .
More Output Follows .
After performing almost 50,000 pairwise tests, it is not unlikely to see a spurious linkage at LOD 3.8. The other two markers, M251 and A066, showed no conclusive evidence of linkage. To provide more information, we can also easily generate a list of all loci linked to the three unassigned markers. By contrast, marker A066 appears truly unlinked, although this could in principle be due to true recombinational distance or massive data errors.