Family-based association tests for ordinal traits adjusting for covariates

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 728-736

  Wang, Xueqin ^a   Ye, Yuanqing ^a   Zhang, Heping ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVALUATION; FAMILY BASED ASSOCIATION TEST; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOME VARIABLE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ALCOHOLISM; ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FAMILY HEALTH; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33845213341     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20184     Document Type: Article

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