A statistically robust variance-components approach for quantitative trait linkage analysis

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 249-262

  Wang, J ^a   Guerra, R ^b   Cohen, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPOPROTEIN; LIVER TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ARTICLE; DISORDERS OF LIPID AND LIPOPROTEIN METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALLELES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; FAMILY HEALTH; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LIPASE; LIVER; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; STATISTICS;

EID: 0032873304     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003480099007514     Document Type: Article

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