Exploiting pleiotropy to map genes for oligogenic phenotypes using extended pedigree data

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 975-980

  Comuzzie, Anthony G ^a   Mahaney, Michael C ^a   Almasy, Laura ^a   Dyer, Thomas D ^a   Blangero, John ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Linkage analysis; Principal components; Variance components

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; LOD SCORE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031443381     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1997)14:6<975::AID-GEPI69>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Conference Paper

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