Statistical properties of a variance components method for quantitative trait linkage analysis in nuclear families and extended pedigrees

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1065-1070

  Williams, Jeff T ^a,c   Duggirala, Ravindranath ^b   Blangero, John ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Power; Relative efficiency; Type I error rate; Unbiasedness

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; CONFERENCE PAPER; ERROR; FAMILY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STATISTICS; VARIANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PEDIGREE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 0031472926     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1997)14:6<1065::AID-GEPI84>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Conference Paper

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