A Flexible Model for Association Analysis in Sibships with Missing Genotype Data

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 428-438

  Dudbridge, Frank ^a,b   Holmans, Peter A ^c   Wilson, Scott G ^d,e,f  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Family based association; FBAT; Haplotype; Sib TDT; TDT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIBLING;

FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SIBLINGS;

EID: 79954610760     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2010.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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