The family based association test method: Strategies for studying general genotype-phenotype associations

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 301-306

  Horvath, Steve ^a,b,c   Xu, Xin ^d   Laird, Nan M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored traits; FBAT; Linkage disequilibrium; Missing genotypes; RC TDT; TDT

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CODING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOMINANT GENE; FAMILY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; METHODOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RECESSIVE GENE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 0035055544     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200625     Document Type: Article

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