Efficiency robust tests for mapping quantitative trait loci using extremely discordant sib pairs

Human Heredity

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 117-124

  Freidlin, Boris ^a,b   Zheng, Gang ^a   Li, Zhaohai ^b,c   Gastwirth, Joseph L ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MAX; MERT; Restricted likelihood ratio test; Robustness; Score test; Triangle constraint

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MODEL; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIBLING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SIBLINGS;

EID: 0041384005     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072316     Document Type: Article

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