Article
Statistical evaluation of multiple-locus linkage data in experimental species and its relevance to human studies: application to nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse and human insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM).
American journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 1993
Risch N, Ghosh S, Todd J A
Abstract excerpt
Common, familial human disorders generally do not follow Mendelian inheritance patterns, presumably because multiple loci are involved in disease susceptibility. One approach to mapping genes for such traits in humans is to first study an analogous form in an animal model, such as mouse, by using...
Topics
- Animals
- Chi-Square Distribution
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human
- Crosses, Genetic
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Disease Models, Animal
- Epistasis, Genetic
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
