Testing causal hypotheses in multivariate linkage analysis of quantitative traits: General formulation and application to sibpair data

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 263-278

  Todorov, A A ^a   Vogler, G P ^b   Gu, C ^a   Province, M A ^a   Li, Z ^c   Heath, A C ^a   Rao, D C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistasis; Quantitative trait linkage; Structural relations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPISTASIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0031923553     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1998)15:3<263::AID-GEPI5>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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