Meta-analysis methodology for combining non-parametric sibpair linkage results: Genetic homogeneity and identical markers

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 609-626

  Gu, Chi ^a   Province, Michael ^a   Todorov, A ^a   Rao, D C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Meta analysis; QTL mapping; Sibpair method

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; META ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIBLING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0031738023     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1998)15:6<609::AID-GEPI5>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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