A discordant-sibship test for disequilibrium and linkage: No need for parental data

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1886-1897

  Horvath, Steve ^a   Laird, Nan M ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; FAMILY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPE; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032470875     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302137     Document Type: Article

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