Down-weighting of multiple affected sib pairs leads to biased likelihood-ratio tests, under the assumption of no linkage [12]

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1248-1252

  Greenwood, C M T ^a   Bull, S B ^a  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC LINKAGE; LETTER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

EID: 0033365221     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302315     Document Type: Letter

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