Weighted variance FBAT: A powerful method for including covariates in FBAT analyses

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 327-337

  Lu, Ake Tzu Hui ^a   Cantor, Rita M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Association analysis FBAT; Covariates; Gauss Newton algorithm; PBAT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COVARIANCE; FAMILY ASSESSMENT; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEIGHTED VARIANCE FAMILY BASED ASSOCIATION TEST;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PARENTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34247354074     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20213     Document Type: Article

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