1. A method of associating a phenotype with one or more candidate chromosomal regions in a genome of an organism using a phenotypic data structure that represents a difference in a phenotype between different strains of said organism, said genome including a plurality of loci, said method comprising: establishing a genotypic data structure, said genotypic data structure corresponding to a locus selected from said plurality of loci, said genotypic data structure representing a variation of at least one component of said locus between different strains of said organism; comparing said phenotypic data structure to said genotypic data structure to form a correlation value; and repeating said establishing and comparing steps for each locus in said plurality of loci, thereby identifying one or more genotypic data structures that form a high correlation value relative to all other genotypic data structures that are compared to said phenotypic data structure during said comparing step; wherein the loci that correspond to said one or more genotypic data structures that form a high correlation value represent said one or more candidate chromosomal regions.