Heterogeneity in meta-analyses of genome-wide association investigations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b,c   Patsopoulos, Nikolaos A ^a   Evangelou, Evangelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; META ANALYSIS;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 41049087605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000841     Document Type: Article

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