Allele frequency misspecification: Effect on power and Type I error of model-dependent linkage analysis of quantitative traits under random ascertainment

BMC Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mandal, Diptasri M ^a   Sorant, Alexa J M ^b   Atwood, Larry D ^c   Wilson, Alexander F ^b   Bailey Wilson, Joan E ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING ERROR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOD SCORE; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33744923666     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-7-21     Document Type: Article

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