Exploiting Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for efficient screening of single SNP associations from case-control studies

Human Heredity

Volumn 63, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 196-204

  Chen, Jinbo ^a   Chatterjee, Nilanjan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Association test; Case control study; Genome scan; Hardy Weinberg equilibrium; Retrospective likelihood

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; RISK; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARIANCE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 33947407252     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099996     Document Type: Article

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