True and false positive peaks in genomewide scans: Applications of length-biased sampling to linkage mapping

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 430-438

  Terwilliger, Joseph D ^a,b   Shannon, William D ^c   Lathrop, G Mark ^a   Nolan, John P ^d   Goldin, Lynn R ^f   Chase, Gary A ^e   Weeks, Daniel E ^a,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS;

EID: 0030851777     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514855     Document Type: Article

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