Correcting for cryptic relatedness in population-based association studies of continuous traits

Human Heredity

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-33

  Zhang, Feng ^a,b   Deng, Hong Wen ^a,c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptic relatedness; Likelihood ratio tests; Population based association studies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRAIT; HEREDITY; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAMILY HEALTH; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SAMPLE SIZE; SIBLINGS;

EID: 70349608363     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000243151     Document Type: Article

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