Two-stage global search designs for linkage analysis using pairs of affected relatives

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 535-558

  Elston, Robert C ^a,b   Guo, Xiuqing ^a   Williams, Latisha V ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

affected sib pairs; genome scan; non parametric linkage analysis; robust linkage analysis

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; SIBLING;

EID: 0030480587     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2272(1996)13:6<535::aid-gepi2>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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