Population Stratification in the Candidate Gene Study: Fatal Threat or Red Herring?

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 66-79

  Hutchison, Kent E ^a   Stallings, Michael ^a   McGeary, John ^a   Bryan, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0345742326     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.130.1.66     Document Type: Article

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