Power of variance component linkage analysis - II. Discrete traits

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 620-632

  Williams, J T ^a   Blangero, J ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; VARIANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 11144250806     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2004.00128.x     Document Type: Review

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