Overview of linkage analysis in complex traits

Current Protocols in Human Genetics

Volumn , Issue SUPPL.64, 2010, Pages

  Bush, William S ^a   Haines, Jonathan ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex traits; Family based design; Linkage analysis

Indexed keywords

GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METHODOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PARAMETRIC TEST; PEDIGREE; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RECURRENCE RISK; RELATIVE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION;

EID: 75949101303     PISSN: 19348266     EISSN: 19348258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/0471142905.hg0109s09     Document Type: Review

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