A note on the power provided by sibships of sizes 2, 3, and 4 in genetic covariance modeling of a codominant QTL

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 163-170

  Dolan, Conor V ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^b   Neale, Michael C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance structures; Environmental effects; Polygenic effects; Power; QTL; Sibships

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODOMINANCE; COVARIANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MODEL; PHENOTYPE; SIBLING;

ALLELES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0032735898     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021687817609     Document Type: Article

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