Selecting cases from nuclear families for case-control association analysis

BMC Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL.1, 2005, Pages

  Moore, Rachael M ^a   Pinel, Tracy ^a   Zhao, Jing Hua ^b   March, Ruth ^a   Jawaid, Ansar ^a  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PARENT; SAMPLING; WORKSHOP; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; PERSONALITY DISORDER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 30344431651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-6-S1-S105     Document Type: Article

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