A comparison of case-control and family-based association methods: The example of sickle-cell and malaria

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 559-565

  Ackerman, Hans ^a,c   Usen, S ^b   Jallow, M ^b   Sisay Joof, F ^b   Pinder, M ^b   Kwiatkowski, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

globin; Case control; Disease association; Hemoglobin; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Segregation distortion; Sickle cell; TDT; Transmission disequilibrium test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEGREGATION DISTORTION; SICKLE CELL TRAIT;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GLOBINS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALARIA; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RESEARCH DESIGN; SICKLE CELL TRAIT;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 22544455705     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2005.00180.x     Document Type: Article

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