Asymptotic equivalence between two score tests for haplotype-specific risk in general linear models

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 166-170

  Xie, Rongrong ^a   Stram, Daniel O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CALCULATION; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; LETTER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 23944477312     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20087     Document Type: Letter

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