Genetic association tests for family data with missing parental genotypes: A comparison

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 80-91

  Whittemore, Alice S ^a   Halpern, Jerry ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained optimization; Family based association tests; Hardy Weinberg frequencies; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; FAMILY STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; STATISTICS;

FAMILY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PARENTS;

GENETTA;

EID: 0037772426     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.10247     Document Type: Article

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