A comparison between microsatellite and single-nucleotide polymorphism markers with respect to two measures of information content

BMC Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL.1, 2005, Pages

  Thalamuthu, Anbupalam ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Indranil ^a   Ray, Amrita ^a   Weeks, Daniel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREDICTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WORKSHOP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

GENETIC MARKERS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 30344443851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-6-S1-S27     Document Type: Article

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