Can the allelic test be retired from analysis of case-control association studies?

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 848-851

  Zheng, Gang ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Office of Research Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele based test; Disequilibrium coefficient; Genetic model; Robust tests; Trend test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MODEL; NULL ALLELE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 54049132532     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2008.00466.x     Document Type: Article

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