Mathematical multi-locus approaches to localizing complex human trait genes

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 701-709

  Hoh, Josephine ^a   Ott, Jurg ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BIOMETRY; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LOD SCORE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

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EID: 0042881041     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1155     Document Type: Review

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