Comparison of variance components and sibpair-based approaches to quantitative trait linkage analysis in unselected samples.

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Published in Genet Epidemiol on January 01, 1999

Authors

J T Williams1, J Blangero

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas 78245-0549, USA. jeffw@darwin.sfbr.org

Associated clinical trials:

Genetics of Atherosclerosis in Mexican Americans | NCT00005462

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