Gametic phase estimation over large genomic regions using an adaptive window approach.

"We are grateful to Theo Anagnostopoulos, Pete Green and Francesco Giannelli of King's College London for kindly providing the human X haplotype data. Matthew Stephens kindly provided us with simulated samples and results on error rates from a previous study that helped us to calibrate our method. We are indebted to Jun Liu and Steve Qin for providing us with a version of their HTYPER software. We also thank two anonymous reviewers and Montgomery Slatkin for thoughtful comments on a previous version of the manuscript. GL was supported by a Swiss NSF grant No 31-56755.99 and LE by an EU grant No QLG2-CT-2001-00916. DB was supported in part by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences (BBSRC) and Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPSRC) Research Councils grant E13397. The ELB procedure has been incorporated into version 3.0 of the Arlequin software, available from LE upon request."