Allele-Sharing Statistics Using Information on Family History

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 547-554

  Callegaro, A ^a   Meulenbelt, I ^a   Kloppenburg, M ^a   Slagboom, P E ^a   Houwing Duistermaat, J J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allele sharing statistics; Family history; Nonparametric linkage analysis; Ungenotyped relatives

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GRANDPARENT; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIBLING;

ALLELES; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMANS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PEDIGREE; SIBLINGS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77958157753     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2010.00602.x     Document Type: Article

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