PedStr software for cutting large pedigrees for haplotyping, IBD computation and multipoint linkage analysis

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 527-531

  Kirichenko, Anatoly V ^a   Belonogova, Nadezhda M ^a,b   Aulchenko, Yurii S ^a,c   Axenovich, Tatiana I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complex pedigrees; Genetically isolated population; Haplotyping; Identity by descent(IBD); Lander Green Kruglyak algorithm; Linkage analysis; Quantitative traits; Splitting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ALGORITHMS; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PEDIGREE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 68549087297     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2009.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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