On the assessment of statistical significance in disease-gene discovery

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1739-1753

  Zhao, Lue Ping ^a   Prentice, Ross ^a   Shen, Fumin ^b   Hsu, Li ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SIZE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC LINKAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033365228     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/512072     Document Type: Article

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