A coalescent simulation of marker selection strategy for candidate gene association studies

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 86-93

  Cole, Suzanne M ^a   Long, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographics; Haplotype; Power; Short tandem repeat; SNP

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 37849008744     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30564     Document Type: Article

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