A method for incorporating ages at onset in affected sibpair linkage studies

Human Heredity

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-12

  Hsu, Li ^a   Li, H ^b   Houwing Duistermaat, J J ^c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age at onset; Combined test; Maximum; Mean IBD test; Power; Semiparametric model; Type I error rate

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; ONSET AGE; PEDIGREE; SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE OF ONSET; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS);

EID: 0036442753     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066693     Document Type: Article

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