Estimation of genetic and environmental factors for binary traits using family data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 449-465

  Pawitan, Yudi ^a   Reilly, M ^a   Nilsson, E ^a   Cnattingius, S ^a   Lichtenstein, P ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clustered binary data; GLMM; Hierarchical likelihood; Mixed models; Pre eclampsia; Segregation analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIRTH; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY STUDY; FETUS OUTCOME; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC TRAIT; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREECLAMPSIA; REGISTER; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWEDEN; VARIANCE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; SWEDEN; TWIN STUDIES;

EID: 0842346674     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1603     Document Type: Article

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