Heterogeneity testing in meta-analysis of genome searches

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 123-137

  Zintzaras, Elias ^a   Ioannidis, John P A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome search; Genome wide scan; GSMA; Heterogeneity; Linkage; Meta analysis; Monte Carlo; Rheumatoid arthritis; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; META-ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 12744274510     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20048     Document Type: Article

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