Transmission-ratio distortion and allele sharing in affected sib pairs: A new linkage statistic with reduced bias, with application to chromosome 6q25.3

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 571-586

  Lemire, Mathieu ^a,b   Roslin, Nicole M ^b   Laprise, Catherine ^a,c,d   Hudson, Thomas J ^a,b   Morgan, Kenneth ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RELATIVE; SEGREGATION DISTORTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIBLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 4544260056     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/424528     Document Type: Article

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