The VITESSE algorithm for rapid exact multilocus linkage analysis via genotype set–recoding and fuzzy inheritance

Nature Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 402-408

  O'Connell, Jeffrey R ^a   Weeks, Daniel E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALLELE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INHERITANCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; PEDIGREE; SOFTWARE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028790963     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1295-402     Document Type: Article

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