Likelihood-based approach to estimating twin concordance for dichotomous traits

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 290-304

  Witte, John S ^a   Carlin, John B ^b   Hopper, John L ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Concordance; Estimation; Likelihoods; Twin method

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TWINS;

LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; TWIN STUDIES;

EID: 0033006825     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1999)16:3<290::AID-GEPI5>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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