A Method for Estimating Penetrance from Families Sampled for Linkage Analysis

DOI10.1111/J.1541-0420.2006.00614.XMaRDI QIDQ5295367zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yuanjia Wang, Ruth Ottman, Daniel Rabinowitz

Publication date 27 July 2007

Published in Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc1839037

zbMATH Keywords

age at onsetBayes formulaepilepsyrisk

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10)

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