Detecting epistatic interactions contributing to quantitative traits

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 141-152

  Culverhouse, Robert ^a   Klein, Tsvika ^a   Shannon, William ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Methodology; Pharmacogenetics; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IRINOTECAN;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DRUG METABOLISM; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ALGORITHMS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 4344659001     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20006     Document Type: Article

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