KELVIN: A software package for rigorous measurement of statistical evidence in human genetics

Human Heredity

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 276-288

  Vieland, Veronica J ^a,b   Huang, Yungui ^a   Seok, Sang Cheol ^a   Burian, John ^a   Catalyurek, Umit ^b   O'Connell, Jeffrey ^c   Segre, Alberto ^d   Valentine Cooper, William ^a  

^a THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; Covariates; Epistasis; Imprinting; KELVIN; Linkage; Linkage disequilibrium; Quantitative traits; Software; Statistical evidence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; KELVIN; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84055184748     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000330634     Document Type: Article

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