LD-EUROPE: Linkage disequilibrium in European populations

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 00.0535

Key words (English)

Linkage disequilibrium; SNP; genetic data base; Europe;
Biotechnology; Life Sciences; Medicine; Health; Scientific Research

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: QLG2-CT-2001-00916

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.1.8 Generic R&D activities

Short description (English)

See abstract

Partners and International Organizations (English)

Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain, Paris (F), Cancer and Immunogenetics Laboratory, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford (UK), Laboratory of Forensic Biology, University of Helsinki (FIN), Dipartimiento di Genetica, Biologia e Biochimica, University of Torino (I), Laboratorio di Genetica Umana, University of Pavia (I), Departament de Ciences Experimentals i de la Salut, University of Barcelona (E)

Abstract (English)

The LD-Europe projects aims at studying the genetic structure and the pattern of linkage disequilibrium in European populations. Our lab is responsible for the creation and the maintenance of a genetic database made of the data accumulated by our partners in the project. This database will contain the genotypes of more than a thousand individuals coming from 12 populations and typed for about 1000 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP). We shall also be responsible for the statistical analyses of these data. At this point we have completed the realization of a web-based online database, accessible on http://zooblythii.unibe.ch/lde. Actual genetic data will be gathered by our partners and integrated into the database in the second year of the project.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 00.0535