The expected power of genome-wide linkage disequilibrium testing using single nucleotide polymorphism markers for detecting a low-frequency disease variant

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 297-306

  Ohashi, J ^a   Tokunaga, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC MODEL; MORBIDITY; PENETRANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0036630062     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003480002001197     Document Type: Article

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