Relative efficiency of haplotype frequency estimation in sibships and nuclear families compared to unrelated individuals

Human Heredity

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 52-62

  Putter, H ^a   Meulenbelt, I ^a   Van Houwelingen, J C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coarsening; EM algorithm; Fisher information; Haplotype; Missing data; Phase ambiguity

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY STUDY; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PARENT; RELATIVE; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; NUCLEAR FAMILY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SIBLINGS;

EID: 34247615438     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000101423     Document Type: Conference Paper

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