FamLink - A user friendly software for linkage calculations in family genetics

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 616-620

  Kling, Daniel ^a,b   Egeland, Thore ^a,b   Tillmar, Andreas O ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC GENETICS AND FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Complex paternity; FamLink; Kinship; Linkage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FAMLINK; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATERNITY TEST; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PEDIGREE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84863782449     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2012.01.012     Document Type: Article

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