Article
Testing familial aggregation.
Biometrics - 1 Dec 1995
Houwing-Duistermaat J J, Derkx B H, Rosendaal F R, van Houwelingen H C
Abstract excerpt
Likelihood calculation for pedigrees is complicated and often time-consuming. Testing correlation structures due to familial aggregation is therefore a preliminary procedure. A score statistic is given to check correlations between relatives of randomly chosen pedigrees. This statistic can be use...
Topics
- Alleles
- Biometry
- Blood
- Endotoxins
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genes, Dominant
- Humans
- In Vitro Techniques
- Likelihood Functions
- Male
- Models, Genetic
- Monocytes
- Pedigree