Investigation of altering single-nucleotide polymorphism density on the power to detect trait loci and frequency of false positive in nonparametric linkage analyses of qualitative traits

BMC Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL.1, 2005, Pages

  Klein, Alison P ^a,b   Tsai, Ya Yu ^c   Duggal, Priya ^a   Gillanders, Elizabeth M ^a   Barnhart, Michael ^c   Mathias, Rasika A ^a   Dusenberry, Ian P ^a   Turiff, Amy ^a   Chines, Peter S ^a   Goldstein, Janet ^c   Wojciechowski, Robert ^a   Hening, Wayne ^d   Pugh, Elizabeth W ^c   Bailey Wilson, Joan E ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROCESS MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ALCOHOLISM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 30344438141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-6-S1-S20     Document Type: Article

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