A tobit variance-component method for linkage analysis of censored trait data

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 611-620

  Epstein, Michael P ^a,b   Lin, Xihong ^a   Boehnke, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINLAND; GENETIC TRAIT; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VARIANCE;

EID: 0037369964     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/367924     Document Type: Article

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