An incomplete-data quasi-likelihood approach to haplotype-based genetic association studies on related individuals

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 487, 2009, Pages 1251-1260

  Wang, Zuoheng ^a   Mcpeek, Mary Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Association testing; Dependent data; Estimating function; Generalized linear model; Missing data; Score test

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349780946     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08507     Document Type: Article

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