Inferring causal relationships among intermediate phenotypes and biomarkers: A case study of rheumatoid arthritis

Bioinformatics

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1503-1507

  Li, Wentian ^a   Wang, Mingyi ^b   Irigoyen, Patricia ^a   Gregersen, Peter K ^a  

^a FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; EPITOPE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 33745587556     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl100     Document Type: Article

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