Empirical genomewide significance levels established by whole genome simulations

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 223-229

  Sawcer, Stephen ^a   Jones, Hywel B ^a   Judge, David ^a   Visser, Frank ^b   Compston, Alastair ^a   Goodfellow, Peter N ^a   Clayton, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UK Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer simulations; Genome screen; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS;

FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PEDIGREE; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

GENETTA;

EID: 0030966815     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1997)14:3<223::AID-GEPI1>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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