highly significantp- value = 0.0000003
We used p-values defined by Lander and Kruglyak [ 17 ] to represent specific LOD score thresholds: (1) suggestive linkage with p value = 0.00074 and corresponding LOD = 2.2; (2) significant linkage with p-value = 0.00002 and corresponding LOD = 3.6; and (3) highly significant linkage with p- value = 0.0000003 and corresponding LOD = 5.4.