Power and robustness of linkage tests for quantitative traits in general pedigrees

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-23

  Chen, Wei Min ^a,c   Broman, Karl W ^a   Liang, Kung Yee ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

GEE; Generalized estimating equations; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SAMPLING; SELECTIVE SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL POWER; STATISTICAL ROBUSTNESS; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SIBLINGS;

EID: 11144346998     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20034     Document Type: Article

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