Assessing accuracy in linkage analysis by means of confidence regions

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-72

  Hössjer, Ola ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Confidence region; Linkage analysis; Locus estimation; Perfect marker information; Slope to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0037772428     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.10248     Document Type: Article

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