Weighting affected sib pairs by marker informativity

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 230-241

  Franke, Daniel ^a   Ziegler, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECTED SIB PAIR; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; INFORMATIVITY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEIGHTED MEAN TEST;

EID: 22544486566     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/432378     Document Type: Article

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