Tests of association for quantitative traits in nuclear families using principal components to correct for population stratification

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 601-613

  Zhang, Lei ^a,c   Li, Jian ^c   Pei, Yu Fang ^a,c   Liu, Yongjun ^c   Deng, Hong Wen ^a,b,c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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

Author keywords

Family based association tests (FBATs); Principal component analysis (PCA); Transmission disequilibrium test (TDT); Variance components

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR FAMILY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIMULATION;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 70350539632     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2009.00539.x     Document Type: Article

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