Two-stage global search designs for linkage analysis I: Use of the mean statistic for affected sib pairs

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 97-110

  Guo, Xiuqing ^a,b   Elston, Robert C ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome scan; Model free linkage analysis; Sample size

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLE; SIBLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, STATISTICAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033951875     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(200002)18:2<97::AID-GEPI1>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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