Mixture models for linkage analysis of affected sibling pairs and covariates

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 52-65

  Devlin, B ^a   Jones, Bobby L ^b   Bacanu, Silviu Alin ^a   Roeder, Kathryn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distributions; Clustering algorithms; Likelihood ratio; Mixing distribution; Score statistics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; SIBLING;

ALGORITHMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0036137962     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.1043     Document Type: Article

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