Design and analysis of association studies using pooled DNA from large twin samples

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 665-677

  Knight, Jo ^a   Sham, Pak ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Association; Micro arrays; Pooling; Power; Statistical methodology; Twins

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIOMETRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA POOLING; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; META REGRESSION ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TWINS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TWIN STUDIES; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC; TWINS;

EID: 33746896575     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-005-9016-9     Document Type: Article

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