The admixture maximum likelihood test: A novel experiment-wise test of association between disease and multiple SNPs

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 636-643

  Tyrer, Jonathan ^a   Pharoah, Paul D P ^a   Easton, Douglas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Association studies; Multiple testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EFFECT SIZE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 33750317855     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20175     Document Type: Article

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