An evaluation of the replicate pool method: Quick estimation of genome-wide linkage peak p-values

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 320-332

  Wigginton, Janis E ^a   Abecasis, Gonçalo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo methods; Non parametric linkage analysis; Significance levels

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; SIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GENOME; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33646243226     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20147     Document Type: Article

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