PedMerge: Merging pedigrees to facilitate family-based genetic statistical analyses

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 2790-2791

  Plaetke, Rosemarie ^a   Balbi, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOG; FAMILY; HUMAN; PEDIGREE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DOGS; FAMILY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEDIGREE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77958506748     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq523     Document Type: Article

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