A composite-conditional-likelihood approach for gene mapping based on linkage disequilibrium in windows of marker loci

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Larribe, Fabrice ^a   Lessard, Sabin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ancestral recombination graph; Composite likelihood; Conditional likelihood; Gene mapping; Importance sampling; Linkage disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 51149120765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1298     Document Type: Article

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