Detecting marker-disease association by testing for Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium at a marker locus

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1531-1540

  Nielsen, Dahlia M ^a,b   Ehm, M G ^a   Weir, B S ^b  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DISEASE MARKER; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032231375     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302114     Document Type: Article

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