Improving the power of sib pair quantitative trait loci detection by phenotype Winsorization

Human Heredity

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 59-67

  Fernàndez, José R ^a   Etzel, Carol ^b   Beasley, T Mark ^a   Shete, Sanjay ^b   Amos, Christopher I ^b   Allison, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Quantitative trait loci; Sib pairs; Statistical power; Winsorizing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALLELE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRAIT; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIBLING;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; STATISTICS;

EID: 0036281620     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000057984     Document Type: Article

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