The advantages of dense marker sets for linkage analysis with very large families

Human Genetics

Volumn 121, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 459-468

  Thomson, Russell ^a   Quinn, Stephen ^a   McKay, James ^a,c   Silver, Jeremy ^b   Bahlo, Melanie ^b   FitzGerald, Liesel ^a   Foote, Simon ^a   Dickinson, Jo ^a   Stankovich, Jim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FAMILY STUDY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION;

FAMILY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS;

EID: 34147130298     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-007-0323-5     Document Type: Article

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