A two-step procedure for constructing confidence intervals of trait loci with application to a rheumatoid arthritis dataset

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 18-29

  Papachristou, Charalampos ^a   Lin, Shili ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence set inference (CSI); Disease gene localization; Intermediate mapping; LOD support intervals; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 6; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFIDENCE SET INTERFERENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 30344457608     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20123     Document Type: Article

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