Using disease symptoms to improve detection of linkage under genetic heterogeneity

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 476-486

  Bureau, Alexandre ^a,b   Labbe, Aurélie ^a,b   Croteau, Jordie ^a   Mérette, Chantal ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Familial correlation; Gene mapping; Latent class models; Penetrance function

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; FAMILY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SYMPTOM; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 48949118888     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20320     Document Type: Article

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