A test of transmission/disequilibrium for quantitative trails in pedigree data, by multiple regression

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 236-245

  George, Varghese ^a   Tiwari, Hemant K ^b   Zhu, Xiaofeng ^c   Elston, Robert C ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

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

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PARENT; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

EID: 0033364734     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302444     Document Type: Article

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