Patent ID: 6909971

Claim:
A method for gene mapping to locate a gene associated with a certain phenotype from a dataset of chromosome and phenotype data by analyzing an association between phenotype and genetic markers m i , comprising: i) searching from said dataset for all marker patterns P that satisfy a pattern evaluation function e(P), wherein a: the marker patterns are expressions within said dataset comprising genetic markers and their alleles and zero or more of the following: individual covariates, environmental variables and auxiliary phenotypes; and b: the pattern evaluation function e(P) is a measure of the association between the marker pattern P and a phenotype being studied, ii) scoring each marker m i of the data with a marker score s(m i ), which is a function of the set S i defined as the set of marker patterns overlapping the marker m i and satisfying the pattern evaluation function e as defined in step i), and iii) locating said gene to the marker m i having the best score s(m i ), wherein the best score is the highest obtained score if said scoring function is designed to give higher scores closer to the gene, or the lowest obtained score if said scoring function is designed to give lower scores closer to the gene, or locating said gene to a chromosomal region containing a set of best scoring markers.