A genotype-based approach to assessing the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms

Human Heredity

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 128-139

  Wellek, Stefan ^b   Ziegler, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

method; Confidence interval; Counting variable; Fisher's z transformation; Lewontin's D ; Linkage disequilibrium; Pearson's

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIPLOIDY; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VALIDITY;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-4;

EID: 57449115418     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000179560     Document Type: Article

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