Efficiency and power in genetic association studies

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1217-1223

  De Bakker, Paul I W ^a,b,c   Yelensky, Roman ^a,d   Pe'Er, Itsik ^a,c   Gabriel, Stacey B ^c   Daly, Mark J ^a,b,c   Altshuler, David ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 27644439141     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1669     Document Type: Article

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