%0 Journal Article %T 1953: An unrecognized summit in human genetic linkage analysis %A E.A. Thompson %J Statistics Surveys %D 2007 %I Statistics Surveys %X This paper summarizes and discusses the methodological research in human genetic linkage analysis, leading up to and following fromthe paper of C. A. B. Smith presented as a Royal Statistical Society discussion paper in 1953. This paper was given as the Fisher XXVII Memorial Lecture, in Cambridge, December 4, 2006. %K Fisher %K Genetic linkage %K Lod score %K C. A. B. Smith %U http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ssu/1191437173