Software for constructing and verifying pedigrees within large genealogies and an application to the Old Older Amish of Lancaster County

Genome Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 211-221

  Agarwala, Richa ^a,b   Biesecker, Leslie G ^a   Hopkins, Katherine A ^c   Francomano, Clair A ^a,c   Schaffer, Alejandro A ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ROW Sciences Inc   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; ETHNIC GROUP; GENEALOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL GENETICS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031966480     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.8.3.211     Document Type: Article

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