Quantitative trait linkage analysis using Gaussian copulas

Genetics

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2317-2327

  Li, Mingyao ^a,b   Boehnke, Michael ^b   Abecasis, Gonçalo R ^b   Song, Peter X K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 33747850181     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.054650     Document Type: Article

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