Determining Inheritance Distributions via Stochastic Penetrances

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 98, Issue 464, 2003, Pages 1035-1051

  Hössjer, Ola ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Founder alleles; Identical by descent sharing; Inheritance distribution; Linkage analysis; Local score functions; Semiparametric linkage analysis; Stochastic penetrances

Indexed keywords

EID: 10744224055     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214503000000990     Document Type: Article

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