Variation in recombination rate may bias human genetic disease mapping studies

Genetica

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 245-252

  Susannah Boyle, A ^a   Noor, Mohamed A F ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gene density; pedigree; QTL; recombination rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 8544252487     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-004-1703-6     Document Type: Article

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