Percentiles of the null distribution of 2 maximum lod score tests

Human Heredity

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-48

  Ulgen, Ayse ^a,c   Yoo, Yun Joo ^c   Gordon, Derek ^b   Finch, Stephen J ^c   Mendell, Nancy R ^c  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Maximization; Methodology; Statistical genetics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FAMILY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NULL ALLELE; PENETRANCE; SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIBLING; SIMULATION;

ALLELES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LOD SCORE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2342654046     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077388     Document Type: Article

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