Estimation and testing of gene-environment interactions in family-based association studies

Genomics

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-9

  Cordell, Heather J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditional likelihood; Imputation; Missing data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAMILY; GENE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 57049134665     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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