A modified revisited haseman-elston method to further improve power

Human Heredity

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 109-116

  Wang, Tao ^a   Elston, Robert C ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Haseman and Elston; Model free linkage analysis; Power; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HASEMAN ELSTON METHOD; HUMAN; PREDICTION; SIBLING; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 2942701949     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077548     Document Type: Article

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