Confidence intervals for relative risk estimates from affected-sib-pair data

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 593-598

  Cordell, Heather J ^a   Olson, Jane M ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar; Likelihood; Linkage analysis

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR FAMILY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0031443221     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1997)14:6<593::AID-GEPI7>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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