The accuracy of statistical estimates in genetic studies of aging can be significantly improved

Biogerontology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 243-255

  Yashin, Anatoli I ^a   Arbeev, Konstantin G ^a   Ukraintseva, Svetlana V ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy of estimates; Aging; Demographic data; Gene; Longitudinal data; Model

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ACCURACY; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SENILE DEMENTIA; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGING; ALLELES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 34248218130     PISSN: 13895729     EISSN: 15736768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10522-006-9072-4     Document Type: Article

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