Recent Advances in Human Quantitative-Trait-Locus Mapping: Comparison of Methods for Discordant Sibling Pairs

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 874-885

  Szatkiewicz, Jin P ^a   T Cuenco, Karen ^b   Feingold, Eleanor ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

EID: 0142091190     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378590     Document Type: Article

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