Power comparison of generalizations of the mean test for affected sib pairs in case of incompletely informative markers

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 314-319

  Knapp, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Linkage analysis; Marker informativity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; SIBLING; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SIBLINGS;

EID: 33646263587     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20146     Document Type: Article

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