A note on a conditional-likelihood approach for family-based association studies of candidate genes

Human Heredity

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 194-200

  Hsu, Li ^a   Zhao, Lue Ping ^a   Aragaki, Corinne ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascertainment adjusted likelihood; Association analysis; Candidate genes; Conditional likelihood; Family studies; Penetrance function

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FAMILY STUDY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN;

EID: 0033963924     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022914     Document Type: Article

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