PedCheck: A program for identification of genotype incompatibilities in linkage analysis

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 259-266

  O'Connell, Jeffrey R ^a   Weeks, Daniel E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032231941     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301904     Document Type: Article

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