Optimal Step Length EM Algorithm (OSLEM) for the estimation of haplotype frequency and its application in lipoprotein lipase genotyping

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Zhang, Peisen ^a   Sheng, Huitao ^a   Morabia, Alfredo ^c   Gilliam, T Conrad ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Expectation maximization algorithm; Genotype; Haplotype frequency estimation; Lipoprotein lipase

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 2942572999     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-4-3     Document Type: Article

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