The bias introduced by population stratification in IBD based linkage analysis

Human Heredity

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 134-142

  Wang, Tao ^a   Elston, Robert C ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Model free linkage analysis; Population stratification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SIBLINGS;

EID: 31144474567     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089867     Document Type: Article

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