Using multivariate genetic modeling to detect pleiotropic quantitative trait loci

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 161-166

  Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genotypic factor scores; linkage analysis; multivariate genetic modeling; quantitative trait locus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ADULT; ALLELES; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0029880136     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02359893     Document Type: Article

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