On the advantage of haplotype analysis in the presence of multiple disease susceptibility alleles

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 221-233

  Morris, Richard W ^a   Kaplan, Norman L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control design; Complex genetic disease; Likelihood ratio test; Linkage disequilibrium; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; MULTIFACTORIAL GENETIC DISORDER; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0036792816     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.10200     Document Type: Article

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