Inferring relationships between pairs of individuals from locus heterozygosities

BMC Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Presciuttini, Silvano ^a,d   Toni, Chiara ^a   Tempestini, Elena ^a   Verdiani, Simonetta ^b   Casarino, Lucia ^b   Spinetti, Isabella ^a   De Stefano, Francesco ^c   Domenici, Ranieri ^a   Bailey Wilson, Joan E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EMPIRICISM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PLOTS AND CURVES; PROBABILITY; RELATIVE; SAMPLE SIZE; SIBLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 2942521785     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-3-23     Document Type: Article

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