Software for generating liability distributions for pedigrees conditional on their observed disease states and covariates

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-170

  Campbell, Desmond D ^a   Sham, Pak C ^b   Knight, Jo ^c,d   Wickham, Harvey ^a   Landau, Sabine ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age of onset; Complex; Disease; Family history; Family history score; Gibbs sampler; Multifactorial; Prediction; Right censoring; Risk; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEDIGREE; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

DEPRESSION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEDIGREE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 76649113727     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20446     Document Type: Article

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