Optimal sibship selection for genotyping in quantitative trait locus linkage analysis

Human Heredity

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-13

  Purcell, S ^a,d   Cherny, S S ^a,b   Hewitt, J K ^c   Sham, P C ^a  

^a Social   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d SGDP Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Linkage; Methodology; Quantitative trait loci; Selection; Sibs; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MODEL; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 0035007458     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000053350     Document Type: Article

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