Smoothing of the bivariate LOD score for non-normal quantitative traits

BMC Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL.1, 2005, Pages

  Buil, Alfonso ^a,b   Dyer, Thomas D ^a   Almasy, Laura ^a   Blangero, John ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY;

ALCOHOLISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATABASES, GENETIC; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 30344447838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-6-S1-S111     Document Type: Article

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