A family-based association test for repeatedly measured quantitative traits adjusting for unknown environmental and/or polygenic effects

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Lange, Christoph ^a   Van Steen, Kristel ^a   Andrew, Toby ^b   Lyon, Helen ^c   DeMeo, Dawn L ^d   Raby, Benjamin ^c   Murphy, Amy ^a   Silverman, Edwin K ^d   MacGregor, Alex ^b   Weiss, Scott T ^c   Laird, Nan M ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Brigham and Women   (United States)

Author keywords

Family based association test; Unknown environmental and or polygenic effects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH STATISTICS; HERITABILITY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ASSOCIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETICS; MEASUREMENT; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 18544389671     PISSN: 15446115     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1067     Document Type: Article

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