Testing the robustness of the likelihood-ratio test in a variance- component quantitative-trait loci-mapping procedure

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 531-544

  Allison, David B ^a   Neale, Michael C ^b   Zannolli, Raffaella ^a,c   Schork, Nicholas J ^d   Amos, Christopher I ^e   Blangero, John ^f  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b Virginia Commonwealth University   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f Department of Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIMULATION; VARIANCE;

EID: 0033358545     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302487     Document Type: Article

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