Heritability estimates from human twin data by incorporating historical prior information

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1348-1362

  Chen, Ming Hui ^a   Manatunga, Amita K ^b   Williams, Christopher J ^c  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Gibbs sampling; Human genetics; Likelihood; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CHAINS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

BAYESIAN METHODS; GIBBS SAMPLING; HERITABILITY ESTIMATES; HUMAN GENETICS; INFORMATIVE PRIORS; LIKELIHOOD; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; PRIOR INFORMATION; SIMULATION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TWINS;

EID: 0032431023     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533662     Document Type: Article

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