The importance of watching our weights: How the choice of weights for non-independent sib pairs can dramatically alter results

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages

  Van Eerdewegh, Paul ^a,b   Dupuis, Josée ^a   Santangelo, Susan L ^c,d   Hayward, Leigha B ^d   Blacker, Deborah ^b,d  

^a GENOME THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Latent class; Linkage analysis; Partial likelihood

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 7; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SIBLING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0032731603     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.1370170763     Document Type: Conference Paper

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