New page: An '''LOD score''' is a statistical estimate of whether two loci are likely to lie near each other on a chromosome and are therefore likely to be inherited together. A LOD sc...
An '''LOD score''' is a statistical estimate of whether two [[locus|loci]] are likely to lie near each other on a [[chromosome]] and are therefore likely to be inherited together. A LOD score of three or more is generally taken to indicate that the two loci are close.