Regression models for linkage: Issues of traits, covariates, heterogeneity, and interaction

Human Heredity

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 86-96

  Schaid, Daniel J ^a   Olson, Jane M ^b   Gauderman, W James ^c   Elston, Robert C ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Haseman and Elston; Linear regression; Logistic regression; Quantitative trait loci; Sib pairs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENT; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIBLING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042887051     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072313     Document Type: Article

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