Combined Linkage and Association Tests in Mx

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 179-196

  Posthuma, D ^a   De Geus, E J C ^a   Boomsma, D I ^a   Neale, M C ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Population stratification; QTL; Quantitative trait; Structural equation modeling; Variance components modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CALCULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MODEL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0346131246     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BEGE.0000013732.19486.74     Document Type: Article

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