An improved multipoint sib-pair analysis of quantitative traits

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 527-532

  Fulker, D W ^a   Cherny, S S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

identical by descent; marker alleles; maximum likelihood; Multipoint sib pair analysis; quantitative traits

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIBLING;

ANIMALS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0029911351     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02359758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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