Identification of distant family relationships

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2376-2382

  Skare, Øivind ^a,b   Sheehan, Nuala ^c   Egeland, Thore ^d,e  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOMICS; HAPLOTYPE; MARKER GENE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 69849088408     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp418     Document Type: Article

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