A conditional-on-exchangeable-parental-genotypes likelihood that remains unbiased at the causal locus under multiple-affected-sibling ascertainment

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 87-90

  Kraft, Peter ^a   Hsieh, Hsin Ju ^b   Cordell, Heather J ^d   Sinsheimer, Janet ^b,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PARAMETER; PARENT; PROBABILITY; PROGENY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIBLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; PARENTS; SIBLINGS;

EID: 21344455072     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20069     Document Type: Letter

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