An Additive Genetic Gamma Frailty Model for Linkage Analysis of Diseases with Variable Age of Onset Using Nuclear Families

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 315-334

  Li, Hongzhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age of onset; Frailty model; Inheritance vector; Linkage analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST TUMOR; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR FAMILY; ONSET AGE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036884683     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020500720254     Document Type: Article

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