A robust test for assortative mating

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 119-124

  Génin, Emmanuelle ^a,d   Ober, Carole ^b   Weitkamp, Lowell ^c   Thomson, Glenys ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Admixture; Assortative mating; HLA; Hutterites; Inbreeding; Power; Robustness

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENETICS; INBREEDING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOUSE;

ALLELES; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPOUSES;

EID: 0342748606     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200430     Document Type: Article

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