Power consequences of linkage disequilibrium variation between populations

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 128-135

  Teo, Yik Y ^a,b,c   Small, Kerrin S ^a   Fry, Andrew E ^a   Wu, Yumeng ^b   Kwiatkowski, Dominic P ^a,c   Clark, Taane G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case control; Family trios; Linkage disequilibrium; Population structure; Power

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FAMILY STUDY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; POWER ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALLELE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HAPLOTYPE; MEDICAL GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALLELES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 63449142078     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20366     Document Type: Article

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