Quantitative Trait Linkage Analysis by Generalized Estimating Equations: Unification of Variance Components and Haseman-Elston Regression

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 265-272

  Chen, Wei Min ^a   Broman, Karl W ^a   Liang, Kung Yee ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HASEMAN ELSTON REGRESSION; HEREDITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIBLING; STATISTICS; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

GENETTA;

EID: 2342456351     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.10315     Document Type: Article

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