Comparison of methods incorporating quantitative covariates into affected sib pair linkage analysis

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-93

  Tsai, Hui Ju ^a,c,d   Weeks, Daniel E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Linkage analysis; Power; Quantitative covariates; Simulation study

Indexed keywords

AFFECTED SIB PAIR LINKAGE ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE; GENE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENERAL CONDITIONAL LOGISTIC MODEL; GENETIC LINKAGE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD BINOMIAL APPROACH; MIXTURE MODEL; MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL; ORDERED SUBSET ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 30344478869     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20126     Document Type: Article

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