Improving the power for disease locus detection in affected-sib-pair studies by using two-locus analysis and multiple regression methods

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages

  Cordell, Heather J ^a,b   Jacobs, Kevin B ^a   Wedig, Geoffrey C ^a   Elston, Robert C ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Haseman Elston; Linkage; Maximum lod score

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; HUMAN; IDENTITY; MODEL; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

EID: 0032728709     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.1370170784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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