An extensive comparison of quantitative trait loci mapping methods

Human Heredity

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 202-211

  Kleensang, A ^a   Franke, D ^a   Alcais A ^c   Abel, L ^c   Muller Myhsok B ^b   Ziegler, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^c IMAGINE INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

Empirical power; Linkage; Monte Carlo simulation study; QTL; Type I error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAMILY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 77949822114     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000289596     Document Type: Article

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