A group of geneticists are interested in identifying genes that may play a role in susceptibility to asthma. They study the inheritance of genetic markers in a series of families that have two or more asthmatic children. They find an association between the presence or absence of asthma and a genetic marker on the short arm of chromosome 20 and calculate a LOD score of 2 for this association. What does this LOD score indicate about genes that may influence asthma?

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