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% \newglossaryentry{pi}
% {
%   name={\ensuremath{\pi}},
%   description={ratio of circumference of circle to its
%                diameter},
%   sort=pi
% }

\newglossaryentry{CO}{name={CO},description={Crossover}, sort=co }
\newglossaryentry{GC}{name={GC},description={Gene conversion, also known as NCO, non-crossover}, sort=gc }
\newglossaryentry{SC}{name={SC},description={Synaptonemal complex}, sort=sc }
\newglossaryentry{DSB}{name={DSB},description={Double strand breaks}, sort=dsb }
\newglossaryentry{DNA}{name={DNA},description={Deoxyribonucleic acid}, sort=dna }
\newglossaryentry{PAR}{name={PAR},description={Pseudoautosomal region}, sort=par }
\newglossaryentry{RFLP}{name={RFLP},description={Restriction fragment length polymorphism}, sort=rflp }
\newglossaryentry{STRP}{name={STRP},description={Short tandem repeat polymorphism}, sort=strp }
\newglossaryentry{SNP}{name={SNP},description={Single nucleotide polymorphism}, sort=snp }
\newglossaryentry{LD}{name={LD},description={Linkage disequilibrium}, sort=ld }
\newglossaryentry{PCR}{name={PCR},description={Polymerase chain reaction}, sort=pcr }
\newglossaryentry{MHC}{name={MHC},description={Major histocompatability complex}, sort=mhc }
\newglossaryentry{IVF}{name={IVF},description={In vitro fertilization}, sort=ivf }
\newglossaryentry{H3K4}{name={H3K4},description={Histone 3, lysine (K) 4}, sort=H3K4 }
\newglossaryentry{NAHR}{name={NAHR},description={Nonallelic homologous recombination}, sort=nahr }
\newglossaryentry{LCR}{name={LCR},description={Low copy repeats} }
\newglossaryentry{CMT1A}{name={CMT1A},description={Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A} }
\newglossaryentry{HNPP}{name={HNPP},description={Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies} }
\newglossaryentry{B-ALL}{name={B-ALL},description={B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia} }
\newglossaryentry{HMM}{name={HMM},description={Hidden Markov model} }
\newglossaryentry{PAC}{name={PAC},description={Product of approximate conditionals} }
\newglossaryentry{EM}{name={EM},description={Expectation maximization} }
\newglossaryentry{MLE}{name={MLE},description={Maximimum likelihood estimation} }
\newglossaryentry{bp}{name={bp},description={Base pairs} }
\newglossaryentry{kb}{name={kb},description={Kilo-base pairs, 1,000 bases} }
\newglossaryentry{Mb}{name={Mb},description={Mega-base pairs, 1,000,000 bases} }
\newglossaryentry{cM}{name={cM},description={centi-Morgans} }
\newglossaryentry{CDF}{name={CDF},description={Cumulative distribution function} }
\newglossaryentry{ZF}{name={ZF},description={Zinc finger} }
\newglossaryentry{TSS}{name={TSS},description={Transcription start site} }
\newglossaryentry{BIC}{name={BIC},description={Bayesian Information Criterion} }
\newglossaryentry{BGC}{name={BGC},description={Biased gene conversion} }
\newglossaryentry{gcBGC}{name={BGC},description={GC biased gene conversion} }
\newglossaryentry{PB1}{name={PB1},description={Polar body 1} }
\newglossaryentry{PB2}{name={PB2},description={Polar body 2} }
\newglossaryentry{FPN}{name={FPN},description={Female pronucleus} }
\newglossaryentry{TPR}{name={TPR},description={True positive rate} }
\newglossaryentry{FDR}{name={FDR},description={False discovery rate} }
\newglossaryentry{LS}{name={LS},description={The Li and Stephens model} }
\newglossaryentry{GWAS}{name={GWAS},description={Genome wide association studies} }



% populations
\newglossaryentry{CEU}{name={CEU},description={Utah Residents (CEPH) with Northern and Western Ancestry}, sort=ceu }
\newglossaryentry{CEPH}{name={CEPH},description={Center for the Study of Human Polymorphisms. French: Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain}, sort=ceph }
\newglossaryentry{YRI}{name={YRI},description={Yoruba in Ibadan, Nigeria (abbreviation: YRI)}, sort=yri }