The affected-/discordant-sib-pair design can guarantee validity of multipoint model-free linkage analysis of incomplete pedigrees when there is marker-marker disequilibrium

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 396-401

  Xing, Chao ^a   Sinha, Ritwik ^a   Xing, Guan ^a   Lu, Qing ^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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECTED SIB PAIR; ALGORITHM; ALLELE; ARTICLE; DISCORDANT SIB PAIR; ERROR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MARKER GENE; MARKER MARKER DISEQUILIBRIUM; MATHEMATICAL GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746528598     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/506331     Document Type: Article

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