A new statistical test for age-of-onset anticipation: Application to bipolar disorder

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1091-1096

  Huang, Jian ^a   Vieland, Veronica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affected parent child pair; Age of onset; Ascertainment bias; Genetic anticipation; Right truncation; Trinucleotide repeat expansions

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC LINKAGE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; ONSET AGE; PARENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AGE OF ONSET; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIPOLAR DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PARENTS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0031458752     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1997)14:6<1091::AID-GEPI88>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Conference Paper

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