A new nonparametric linkage statistic for mapping both qualitative and quantitative trait loci

N J Camp1, A Gutin, V Abkevich

  • 1University of Utah, Myriad Genetics Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Genetic Epidemiology
|January 17, 2002
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