Association tests for traits with variable age at onset

Human Heredity

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 46-53

  Mokliatchouk, Oksana ^a   Blacker, Deborah ^b,c,d   Rabinowitz, Daniel ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Admixture; Ascertainment; Conditional likelihood; Efficient score; Logistic regression; Population stratification; Proportional hazards; Transmission disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ACCURACY; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; ONSET AGE; POPULATION RESEARCH; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGE OF ONSET; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 0035209355     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022959     Document Type: Article

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