Linkage analysis for diseases with variable age of onset

Human Heredity

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 205-210

  Siegmund, Kimberly D ^a   Todorov, Alexandre A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored age of onset; Cox model; Linkage analysis; Sib pair methods

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RISK; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; ONSET AGE; PARENT; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; SIBLING; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0033961305     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022916     Document Type: Article

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