Review and evaluation of methods correcting for population stratification with a focus on underlying statistical principles

Human Heredity

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 67-86

  Tiwari, Hemant K ^a   Barnholtz Sloan, Jill ^b   Wineinger, Nathan ^a   Padilla, Miguel A ^a   Vaughan, Laura K ^a   Allison, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Admixture; Ancestry; Association; Covariance based tests; Genomic control; Linkage; Marginal based tests; QTL; RAM; Randomization; SAT; Structure; Sufficient statistics; TDT

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; GENE LOCUS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; PARENT; POPULATION; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SIBLING; STATISTICS; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 41649099637     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000119107     Document Type: Review

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