Trade-off between false positives and false negatives in the linkage analysis of complex traits

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 453-464

  Todorov, A A ^a   Rao, D C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex traits; False negatives; False positives; Linkage analysis; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030666551     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1997)14:5<453::AID-GEPI1>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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