Robust estimation of critical values for genome scans to detect linkage

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 24-32

  Bacanu, Silviu Alin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b 424 Thomas Detre Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregressive; Differenced; Genetic; Map; Significant; Suggestive; Threshold; Time series

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRITICAL VALUE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME; GENOME SCAN; HYPOTHESIS; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPOINT LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PEDIGREE; SIGNIFICANT THRESHOLD; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUGGESTIVE THRESHOLD; THEORY;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EATING DISORDERS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 11144335931     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20030     Document Type: Article

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