Bias and efficiency in family-based gene-characterization studies: Conditional, prospective, retrospective, and joint likelihoods

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1119-1131

  Kraft, Peter ^a   Thomas, Duncan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0033912293     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302808     Document Type: Article

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