Longitudinal variance components models for systolic blood pressure, fitted using Gibbs sampling

This paper describes an analysis of systolic blood pressure (SBP) in the Genetic Analysis Workshop 13 (GAW13) simulated data. The main aim was to assess evidence for both general and specific genetic effects on the baseline blood pressure and on the rate of change (slope) of blood pressure with time...

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Main Authors: Scurrah, Katrina J, Tobin, Martin D, Burton, Paul R
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2003
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1866460/