SUP: An extension to SLINK to allow a larger number of marker loci to be simulated in pedigrees conditional on trait values

BMC Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lemire, Mathieu ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 33746861136     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-7-40     Document Type: Article

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