Fast and accurate calculation of a computationally intensive statistic for mapping disease genes

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 659-676

  Seok, Sang Cheol ^a   Evans, Michael ^c   Vieland, Veronica J ^a,b  

^a THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complex traits; Linkage and LD analyses; Numerical integration; Posterior probability of linkage; Sub region adaptive method

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MATHEMATICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 67649280618     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2008.0175     Document Type: Article

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