Multilocus lod scores in large pedigrees: Combination of exact and approximate calculations

Human Heredity

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 142-153

  Tong, Liping ^a   Thompson, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Block Gibbs MCMC; Haplotype update; Meiosis indicator; Multiple meiosis update

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAPLOTYPE; MATHEMATICAL GENETICS; MEIOSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEDIGREE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLER; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MARKOV CHAINS; MEIOSIS; PEDIGREE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 37149037924     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109731     Document Type: Article

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