Comparison of variance components and sibpair-based approaches to quantitative trait linkage analysis in unselected samples

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 113-134

  Williams, Jeff T ^a   Blangero, John ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Power; Relative efficiency; Statistical genetics; Type I error rate; Unbiasedness

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; VARIANCE;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 0032909574     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1999)16:2<113::AID-GEPI1>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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