Improved power of sib-pair linkage analysis using measures of complex trait dynamics

J H Moore1

  • 1Program in Human Genetics, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, Tenn 37232-0700, USA. moore@phg.mc.vanderbilt.edu

Human Heredity
|July 28, 2001
PubMed

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