New joint covariance- and marginal-based tests for association and linkage for quantitative traits for random and non-random sampling

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-57

  Tiwari, Hemant K ^a,d   Holt, Janet ^a,b   George, Varghese ^a,e   Beasley, T Mark ^a   Amos, Christopher I ^c   Allison, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^e University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; Covariance based tests; Extreme sampling; Joint tests; Linkage; Marginal based tests; QTL; TDT

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE INHERITANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVARIANCE; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; ERROR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; INHERITANCE; JOINT TEST; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; NON RANDOM SAMPLING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARENT; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RANDOM SAMPLING; RANDOMIZATION; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL POWER; TRANSMISSION DISEQUILIBRIUM TEST; TYPE I ERROR;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LOGISTIC MODELS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 11144316767     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20035     Document Type: Article

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