The power to detect genetic linkage for quantitative traits in the Utah CEPH pedigrees

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 69-75

  Malhotra, Alka ^a,b   Cromer, Kevin ^a   Leppert, Mark F ^a   Hasstedt, Sandra J ^a  

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

^b TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Linkage analysis; Power analysis; Quantitative traits; Simulation; Utah CEPH

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RECESSIVE GENE; UNITED STATES; VARIANCE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, THEORETICAL; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTAH;

EID: 15944368228     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10038-004-0222-8     Document Type: Article

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