Hardy-weinberg testing for continuous data

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1965-1975

  McIntyre, Lauren M ^a,b   Weir, B S ^b,c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES; GENOTYPE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 0030734379     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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