GENEHUNTER: Your 'one-stop shop' for statistical genetic analysis?

Human Heredity

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 2-7

  Nyholt, Dale R ^a,b  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

GENEHUNTER; Linkage; Linkage disequilibrium; Model based linkage analysis; Model free multipoint linkage analysis; Quantitative trait loci; Transmission disequilibrium test; Variance components analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; REVIEW;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; PEDIGREE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STATISTICS;

EID: 0036126302     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000048598     Document Type: Review

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