Combining extremely concordant sibpairs with extremely discordant sibpairs provides a cost effective way to linkage analysis of quantitative trait loci

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 513-533

  Gu, Chi ^a   Todorov, A ^a   Rao, D C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

extreme sibpair method; power; QTL; selective sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SAMPLING; SIBLING; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEAR FAMILY; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0030471517     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1996)13:6<513::AID-GEPI1>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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