Accelerated gene counting for haplotype frequency estimation

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 608-612

  Thomas, Alun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Association mapping; Computational efficiency; EM algorithm; Gene counting

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4-KINASE; ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0142174638     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2003.00054.x     Document Type: Article

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