MLBGH

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

Full Name

Maximum-Likelihood-Binomial analysis of affected sib-pair and sibship data extended from the GENEHUNTER program

Version

1.0

Description

an extension of the GENEHUNTER program to perform sib-pair and sib-ship linkage analysis using the Maximum Likelihood Binomial (MLB) method.

Author

  • Laurent Abel (INSERM Unit 436, Paris, France, email: abel@biomath.jussieu.fr)
  • Bertram Muller-Myhsok (Bernhard Nocht Institute, Hamburg, Germany, email: bmm@bni.uni-hamburg.de)

  • Anne Philippi (INSERM Unit 436, Paris, France, email: philippi@biomath.jussieu.fr)

    URL

  • ftp://ftp.biomath.jussieu.fr/pub/mlbgh (not available)

  • http://genamics.com/software/downloads/mlbgh-1.0.tar.Z

    Language

    C

    OS

    UNIX

    EXE

    mlbgh

    Reference

    Abel, Muller-Myhsok (1998), “Robustness and power of the maximum-likelihood-binomial and maximum-likelihood-score methods, in multipoint linkage analysis of affected-sibship data”, American Journal of Human Genetics, 63(2):638-647