Sex ratio and proportion of affected sons in sibships with X-chromosomal recessive traits: Maximum likelihood estimation in truncated multinomial distributions

Human Heredity

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 173-180

  Fellman, Johan ^a   Eriksson, Aldur W ^a   Forsius, Henrik ^a  

^a FOLKHÄLSAN INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ascertainment bias; Human albinism; Meiotic drive; Segregation distortion; Segregation ratio; X chromosomal recessive retinoschisis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATION; PROGENY; RETINOSCHISIS; SEX LINKAGE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; X CHROMOSOME RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; FAMILY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; PROBABILITY; RECESSIVE GENE; SIBLING; X CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FAMILY; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENES, RECESSIVE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY; RETINOSCHISIS; SEX RATIO; SIBLINGS;

EID: 0036438793     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066191     Document Type: Article

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