PSEUDOMARKER: A powerful program for joint linkage and/or linkage disequilibrium analysis on mixtures of singletons and related individuals

Human Heredity

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 256-266

  Hiekkalinna, Tero ^a,b   Schäffer, Alejandro A ^c   Lambert, Brian ^d   Norrgrann, Petri ^a,b   Göring, Harald H H ^e   Terwilliger, Joseph D ^a,f,g,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^f Departments of F Psychiatry   (United States)

^g Genetics and Development   (United States)

^h Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

ⁱ NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer software; Family based association; Genome wide association; Likelihood methods; Linkage analysis; Linkage disequilibrium; Study design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMARKER COMPUTER PROGRAM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79960858671     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000329467     Document Type: Article

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