Finding starting points for Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis of genetic data from large and complex pedigrees

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 14-24

  Luo, Yuqun ^a   Lin, Shili ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genotypic configuration; Heated Gibbs sampler; Heated relaxed penetrance; Hutterite pedigree; Inheritance vector; Irreducibility; START

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEDIGREE; PENETRANCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PROBABILITY;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEDIGREE;

IMA;

EID: 0037772441     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.10243     Document Type: Article

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