Estimating the power of variance component linkage analysis in large pedigrees.

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Published in Genet Epidemiol on September 01, 2006

Authors

Wei-Min Chen1, Gonçalo R Abecasis

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. wechen@umich.edu

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