Distribution of model-based multipoint heterogeneity lod scores

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 912-916

  Xing, Chao ^a   Morris, Nathan ^b   Xing, Guan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution; Heterogeneity lod score; Multipoint

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PHENOTYPE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 78649513496     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20535     Document Type: Article

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