Copulas in QTL Mapping

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 161-171

  Basrak, Bojan ^a   Klaassen, Chris A J ^b   Beekman, Marian ^c   Martin, Nick G ^d   Boomsmas, Dorret I ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Copulas; Genome scan; Normal distribution; Quantitative trait loci; Variance components

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 6; GENOME; HISTOGRAM; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIPOPROTEIN(A); MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC;

EID: 1442308249     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BEGE.0000013730.63991.ba     Document Type: Article

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