Handling missing values in population data: Consequences for maximum likelihood estimation of haplotype frequencies

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 805-812

  Gourraud, Pierre Antoine ^a   Génin, Emmanuelle ^b   Cambon Thomsen, Anne ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; EM algorithm; Haplotype; HLA; Linkage disequilibrium; Missing values

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POPULATION;

EID: 6444239772     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201233     Document Type: Article

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