Evaluating and improving power in whole-genome association studies using fixed marker sets

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 663-667

  Pe'er, Itsik ^a,b,c   De Bakker, Paul I W ^a,b,c   Maller, Julian ^a   Yelensky, Roman ^a,d   Altshuler, David ^a,b,c   Daly, Mark J ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; EVALUATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 33745279392     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1816     Document Type: Article

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