Ascertainment correction for Markov chain Monte Carlo segregation and linkage analysis of a quantitative trait

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 594-604

  Ma, Jianzhong ^a   Amos, Christopher I ^a,b   Daw, E Warwick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Sequential sampling; Single ascertainment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MODEL; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEDIGREE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LOKI;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 34848821815     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20231     Document Type: Article

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