Efficient score statistics for mapping quantitative trait loci with extended pedigrees

Human Heredity

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 57-68

  Wang, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinship coefficient; Likelihood ratio statistic; Linkage analysis; QTL; Score statistic

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 0036953031     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067663     Document Type: Article

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