Notes on the maximum likelihood estimation of haplotype frequencies

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 257-264

  Mano, Shuhei ^a,b,c   Yasuda, N ^a,c   Katoh, T ^b,c   Tounai, K ^b,c   Inoko, H ^b,c   Imanishi, T ^a,c   Tamiya, G ^b,c   Gojobori, T ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analytic solution; EM algorithm; Haplotype frequency estimation; Likelihood surface; Maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAPLOTYPE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 4444383439     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2003.00088.x     Document Type: Article

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