A strategy to discover genes that carry multi-allelic or mono-allelic risk for common diseases: A cohort allelic sums test (CAST)

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 615, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 28-56

  Morgenthaler, Stephan ^a   Thilly, William G ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CAST; Mono allelic risk; Multi allelic risk

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COHORT ALLELIC SUMS TEST; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RISK; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTERNET; MUTATION RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WILD TYPE; ZYGOSITY;

ALLELES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE DELETION; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETICS, POPULATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846014328     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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