Including sampling and phenotyping costs into the optimization of two stage designs for genomewide association studies

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 844-852

  Müller, Hans Helge ^a   Pahl, Roman ^a   Schäfer, Helmut ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case control association study; Maximum power; Minimum costs; Optimal two stage design; Sampling and genotyping costs; SNP chip

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; SAMPLING;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLING STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 38049009362     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20245     Document Type: Article

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