A new strategy for linkage analysis under epistasis taking into account genetic heterogeneity

Human Heredity

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 231-242

  Bureau, Alexandre ^a,b   Mérette, Chantal ^a,b   Croteau, Jordie ^a   Fournier, Alain ^a   Chagnon, Yvon C ^a,b   Roy, Marc André ^a,b   Maziade, Michel ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Epistasis; Genetic heterogeneity; Parametric linkage analysis; Pedigree analysis; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 67650700454     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000228921     Document Type: Article

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