On estimating the proportion of variance in a phenotypic trait attributable to a measured locus

Human Heredity

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 145-149

  Wijsman, Ellen M ^a,b   Nur, Nadav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Heritability; Measured locus; Quantitative trait locus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SAMPLING; VARIANCE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; STATISTICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0035104445     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000053335     Document Type: Article

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