Searching for disease-susceptibility loci by testing for Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium in a gene bank of affected individuals

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 158, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 397-400

  Lee, Wen Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Disease susceptibility; Epidemiologic methods; Gene library; Genetics; Genome; Hardy Weinberg equilibrium; Monte Carlo method; Polymorphism, single nucleotide

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENETICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 0041509097     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwg150     Document Type: Article

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