Family-Based Tests for Associating Haplotypes with General Phenotype Data: Application to Asthma Genetics

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-69

  Horvath, Steve ^a,b   Xu, Xin ^c   Lake, Stephen L ^d   Silverman, Edwin K ^d   Weiss, Scott T ^c,d   Laird, Nan M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Admixture; Association; Candidate region; FBAT; Missing; Multi locus; Transmission; Unphased

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DRUG RESPONSE; FAMILY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; ASTHMA; FAMILY; FAMILY HEALTH; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA;

EID: 0347992868     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.10295     Document Type: Article

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