Sib-pair linkage analyses of nuclear family data: Quantitative versus dichotomous disease classification

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 827-832

  Korczak, Jeannette F ^a   Goldstein, Alisa M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex traits; Genome scanning; Nonparametric linkage analysis; Oligogenic traits

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIBLING;

GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031455771     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1997)14:6<827::AID-GEPI44>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Conference Paper

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