Covariate adjustment in family-based association studies

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 244-255

  Whittemore, Alice S ^a   Halpern, Jerry ^a   Ahsan, Habibul ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Confounding; Covariate adjustment; Efficient score statistic; Genetic association; Transmission distortion; Transmission disequilibrium test

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY;

ALLELES; AROMATASE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEAR FAMILY;

EID: 15544378432     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20055     Document Type: Article

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