Fast implementation of a scan statistic for identifying chromosomal patterns of genome wide association studies

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1794-1801

  Sun, Yan V ^a   Jacobsen, Douglas M ^a   Turner, Stephen T ^b   Boerwinkle, Eric ^c   Kardia, Sharon L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; BLOOD PRESSURE; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

AFFYMETRIX; CANDIDATE GENES; CHROMOSOMAL REGIONS; COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; DATA-SETS; DRUG RESPONSE; FAST IMPLEMENTATIONS; FREQUENCY CORRELATIONS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATIONS; GENOMIC DISTRIBUTIONS; GENOMIC REGIONS; JAVA APPLICATIONS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUMS; PERMUTATION TESTS; PHARMACOGENOMIC STUDIES; SCAN STATISTICS; SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 60349123180     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.04.013     Document Type: Article

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