Statistical evaluation of age-at-onset anticipation: A new test and evaluation of its behavior in realistic applications

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1212-1227

  Vieland, Veronica J ^a,c   Huang, Jian ^b  

^a Division of Cardiac Anesthesia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC DISORDER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031960546     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301823     Document Type: Article

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