Analyzing sibship correlations in birth weight using large sibships from Norway

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 423-433

  Beaty, T H ^a,c   Skjaerven, R ^b   Breazeale, D R ^a   Liang, K Y ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Clustered data; Sibship correlation; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; PARITY; SIBLING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIRTH CERTIFICATES; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORWAY; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030802153     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1997)14:4<423::AID-GEPI7>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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