In the Context of Approaches to Gene Identification and Discovery

Multiple Choice

In the context of approaches to gene identification and discovery, ________, in which the goal is to discover the location of a gene (or genes) in relation to a marker gene (whose position is already known) , is often used to search for disease-related genes.

A) the Thousand Genomes Project
B) genome-wide association
C) linkage analysis
D) next-generation sequencing