A method for evaluating the impact of individual haplotypes on disease incidence in molecular epidemiology studies

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Venkatraman, E S ^a   Mitra, Nandita ^a   Begg, Colin B ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control; Haplotype

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM;

EID: 14644440626     PISSN: 15446115     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1056     Document Type: Article

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