Family-based designs in the age of large-scale gene-association studies

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 385-394

  Laird, Nan M ^a   Lange, Christoph ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PHENOTYPE; FAMILY BASED DESIGN; FAMILY STUDY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION; POPULATION ADMIXTURE; POPULATION BASED DESIGN; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION STRATIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW; STATISTICS; TRANSMISSION DISEQUILIBRIUM TEST; WHOLE GENOME ASSOCIATION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FAMILY; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 33646188852     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1839     Document Type: Review

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