Extension of the SIMLA package for generating pedigrees with complex inheritance patterns: Environmental covariates, gene-gene and gene-environment interaction

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Schmidt, Mike ^a   Martin, Eden R ^a   Hauser, Elizabeth R ^a   Schmidt, Silke ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; Genetics; Linkage; Software; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 23044449472     PISSN: 15446115     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1133     Document Type: Article

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