Linkage detection adaptive to linkage disequilibrium: The disequilibrium maximum-likelihood-binomial test for affected-sibship data

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1741-1759

  Huang, Jian ^a   Jiang, Yanming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIBLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0033365262     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302659     Document Type: Article

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