Mapping quantitative traits in unselected families: Algorithms and examples

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 617-627

  Dupuis, Josée ^a   Shi, Jianxin ^b   Manning, Alisa K ^a   Benjamin, Emelia J ^c,d   Meigs, James B ^e   Cupples, L Adrienne ^a   Siegmund, David ^f  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended pedigrees; Genetic linkage; Quantitative trait locus; Score test; Variance component analysis

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FAMILY STUDY; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ENVIRONMENT; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 70350651343     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20413     Document Type: Article

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