Incorporating endophenotypes into allele-sharing based linkage tests

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 133-142

  Wang, Wen Chang ^a   Chang, I Shou ^a   Chang, Chin Hao ^a   Curb, David ^b   Ho, Low Tone ^c   Hsiung, Chao A ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^b PACIFIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coefficient of endophenotype; Concordant (discordant) sibpair; Correlated phenotypes; Multipoint linkage test; Permutation method

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOPHENOTYPE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC LINKAGE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHENOTYPE; SIBLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALLELES; CHINA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 32044456987     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20133     Document Type: Article

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