Automatic selection of loop breakers for genetic linkage analysis

Human Heredity

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-60

  Becker, Ann ^a   Geiger, Dan ^a   Schäffer, Alejandro A ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Bayesian networks; Genetics; Linkage analysis; Loops; Probabilistic inference

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC LINKAGE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0031972889     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022781     Document Type: Article

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