An entropy-based measure of founder informativeness

Genetical Research

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 81-88

  Reyes Valdés, M Humberto ^a   Williams, Claire G ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA AGRARIA ANTONIO NARRO   (Mexico)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENE MAPPING; HAPLOTYPE; INBREEDING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MARKER GENE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OUTBREEDING; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SAMPLE SIZE; ZYGOTE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; ENTROPY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 18744388306     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672305007354     Document Type: Article

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