The power of association studies to detect the contribution of candidate genetic loci to variation in complex traits

Genome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 720-731

  Long, Anthony D ^a   Langley, Charles H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER;

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; NUCLEOTIDES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032827782     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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