Covariate adjusted correlation analysis with application to fmr1 premutation female carrier data

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 781-792

  Şentürk, Damla ^a   Nguyen, Danh V ^b   Tassone, Flora ^c   Hagerman, Randi J ^d   Carroll, Raymond J ^e   Hagerman, Paul J ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional correlation; Fragile X syndrome; Local method of moments; Mental retardation; Nonparametric partial correlation; Pearson correlation; Semiparametric modeling

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; GENES; RNA;

CONDITIONAL CORRELATION; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; LOCAL METHOD OF MOMENT; LOCAL METHODS; MENTAL RETARDATION; NONPARAMETRIC PARTIAL CORRELATION; NONPARAMETRICS; PARTIAL CORRELATION; PEARSON CORRELATION; SEMI-PARAMETRIC MODELING; X SYNDROME;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

CORRELATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SIMULATION; FISHER EXACT TEST; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; TANDEM REPEAT;

BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 67649095407     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01169.x     Document Type: Article

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