Gamma frailty model for linkage analysis with application to interval-censored migraine data

Biostatistics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 187-200

  Jonker, M A ^a   Bhulai, S ^a   Boomsma, D I ^a   Ligthart, R S L ^a   Posthuma, D ^a   Van Der Vaart, A W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Additive gamma frailty model; Heritability; IBD sharing; Interval censoring; Likelihood ratio test; Linkage analysis; Migraine; Survival data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIGRAINE; NETHERLANDS; ONSET AGE; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TWINS;

AGE OF ONSET; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; MODELS, GENETIC; NETHERLANDS; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REFERENCE VALUES; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 57749099417     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxn027     Document Type: Article

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