Analytic strategies to detect linkage to a common disorder with genetically determined age of onset: Diabetes mellitus in Pima Indians

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 299-315

  Hanson, Robert L ^a   Knowler, William C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Age of onset; Diabetes mellitus; Linkage analysis; Non insulin dependent; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MODEL; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; ONSET AGE;

EID: 0031923684     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2272(1998)15:3<299::aid-gepi7>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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