A scan statistic for identifying chromosomal patterns of SNP association

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 627-635

  Sun, Yan V ^a   Levin, Albert M ^a   Boerwinkle, Eric ^b   Robertson, Henry ^a   Kardia, Sharon L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease association; Genome wide association; Poisson process; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME 19; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 33750313979     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20173     Document Type: Article

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