Two-stage global search designs for linkage analysis II: Including discordant relative pairs in the study

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 111-127

  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

Affected sib pairs; Genome scan; Model free linkage analysis; Sample size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SCREENING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLE; SIBLING;

GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 0033953256     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(200002)18:2<111::AID-GEPI2>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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