Score test for mapping quantitative-trait loci with sibships of arbitrary size when the dominance effect is not negligible

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 398-412

  Wang, Kai ^a   Huang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive effect; Dominance effect; Likelihood ratio statistic; Linkage analysis; QTL; Score statistic

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC MODEL; HERITABILITY; INHERITANCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIBLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0036857242     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.10203     Document Type: Article

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