A linkage tournament: Affection status, parametric analysis, multivariate traits, and enhancements to variance components and relative pairs

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-98

  Zhang, W ^a   Collins, A ^a   Lonjou, C ^a   Morton, N E ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; PERFORMANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIBLING;

ASTHMA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS;

PANACEA;

EID: 0036381141     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003480001008971     Document Type: Article

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