Power, validity, bias and robustness of family-based association analysis methods in the presence of linkage for late onset diseases

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 793-800

  Nsengimana, Jérémie ^a   Barrett, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditional logistic regression; Extended sibships; Robust variance; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDITIONAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPIRICAL VARIANCE FAMILY BASED ASSOCIATION TEST; FAMILY ASSESSMENT; FAMILY BASED ASSOCIATION TEST; FAMILY STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; ROBUST CONDITIONAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION; SIBLING; SIBSHIP DISEQUILIBRIUM TEST; VALIDITY; VARIANCE;

AGE OF ONSET; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FAMILY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 54049114693     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2008.00475.x     Document Type: Article

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