Robustness and power of the maximum-likelihood-binomial and maximum- likelihood-score methods, in multipoint linkage analysis of affected-sibship data

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 638-647

  Abel, Laurent ^a   Müller Myhsok, Bertram ^b  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

EID: 1642633542     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301958     Document Type: Article

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