QTL mapping with discordant and concordant sibling pairs: New statistics and new design strategies

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 326-340

  Szatkiewicz, Jin P ^a   Feingold, Eleanor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Concordant pair; Discordant pair; EDAC; Quantitative trait

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIBLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWIN CONCORDANCE; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SIBLINGS; STATISTICS;

EID: 17644423494     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20065     Document Type: Article

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