An approach for cutting large and complex pedigrees for linkage analysis

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 854-860

  Liu, Fan ^a   Kirichenko, Anatoliy ^b   Axenovich, Tatiana I ^b   van Duijn, Cornelia M ^a   Aulchenko, Yurii S ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PEDIGREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALE; PEDIGREE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 45749129812     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2008.24     Document Type: Article

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