Testing for equality of standardized composite measures of linkage disequilibrium

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 292-296

  Hamilton, David C ^a   Cole, D E C ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calcium sensing receptor; Composite linkage Disequilibrium; Disequilibrium; Hardy Weinberg; Inference testing

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM SENSING RECEPTOR;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIAN; IRELAND; ITALY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STANDARDIZATION; VARIANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 38949189261     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2007.00404.x     Document Type: Article

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