Adjusting for founder relatedness in a linkage analysis using prior information

Human Heredity

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 221-231

  Sheehan, N A ^a   Egeland, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adjusted lod score; Bayes' theorem; Likelihoods; Linkage analysis; Prior information; Relationship estimation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; PEDIGREE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE;

EID: 38649117937     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000112369     Document Type: Article

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