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. 1998 Oct;63(4):947–954. doi: 10.1086/302076

Bayesian linkage analysis, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the posterior probability of linkage.

V J Vieland 1
PMCID: PMC1377508  PMID: 9758634

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