A note on linkage analysis with affected sib triplets

Human Heredity

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-25

  Knapp, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affected sib triplets; Linkage analysis; Lod score analysis; Mean test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INHERITANCE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY;

GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MODELS, GENETIC; QUADRUPLETS; TRIPLETS;

EID: 18644364751     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084733     Document Type: Article

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