Robust multipoint simultaneous identical-by-descent mapping for two linked loci

Human Heredity

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-46

  Lin, Wan Yu ^a   Schaid, Daniel J ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Affected relative pairs; Affected sib pairs; Generalized estimating equations; Linkage analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CHROMOSOME 20; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; MALE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PROSTATE CANCER;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 20; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SIBLINGS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33846696346     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098460     Document Type: Article

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