MOD-score analysis with simple pedigrees: An overview of likelihood-based linkage methods

Human Heredity

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 192-202

  Strauch, Konstantin ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affected half sib pairs; Affected sib pairs; Allele sharing; Linkage analysis; LOD scores; MOD scores; Nonparametric analysis; Null distribution; Parameter estimation; Parametric analysis

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PARAMETRIC TEST; PEDIGREE; REVIEW;

LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; METHODS; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE;

EID: 34250747331     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000102992     Document Type: Review

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