Joint multipoint linkage analysis of multivariate qualitative and quantitative traits. I. Likelihood formulation and simulation results

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1134-1147

  Williams, Jeff T ^b   Van Eerdewegh, Paul ^a   Almasy, Laura ^c   Blangero, John ^c  

^a GENOME THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIMULATION; VARIANCE;

EID: 0033365292     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302570     Document Type: Article

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