Program update and novel use of the DESPAIR program to design a genome-wide linkage study using relative Pairs

Human Heredity

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-51

  Ochs Balcom, Heather M ^a,b   Guo, Xiuqing ^c   Yonebayashi, Takashi ^c   Wiesner, Georgia ^d   Elston, Robert C ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BURNS AND ALLEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

DESPAIR; Linkage analysis; Model free linkage analysis; Power; Relative pairs; Sib pair linkage analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; SIBLING;

ALGORITHMS; FAMILY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SIBLINGS; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 70349608368     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000243153     Document Type: Article

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