Comparison of four sib-pair linkage methods for analyzing sibships with more than two affecteds: Interest of the binomial maximum likelihood approach

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 371-390

  Abel, Laurent ^a   Alcais, Alexandre ^a   Mallet, Alain ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIBLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAMILY; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 0031815057     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1998)15:4<371::AID-GEPI4>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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