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question 26

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While linkage is a ____1_____ phenomenon, association is a _____2_____ property. Linkage is concerned with seeking to identify the map relationship between two or more ___3___, such as disease and marker ___3____, by analysing samples from individuals within ____4____. Association, on the other hand, is a relationship between ____5____and is studied by analysing samples from individuals within ____6____. Linkage works over ____7____ distances whereas, in practice, association works over very ____8_____ distances. If allele A*1 is shown to be positively associated with a complex disease it would be described as a disease ____9____ factor, and if allele A*2 is negatively associated with the disease it would be described as a ____10____ factor

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Definitions:

Rate of Sales

The speed at which a company's goods are sold or its services are provided within a specific period.

Constant-cost Industry

An industry in which the input costs do not change as the industry's output changes, leading to a flat supply curve.

Demand Increase

A situation where the desire for a good or service exceeds the previous level at the current price.

Market Equilibrium

The point at which the quantity demanded by consumers equals the quantity supplied by producers, resulting in no economic pressure to change the price.