Testing for familial aggregation of functional traits

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 29, 2009, Pages 3611-3625

  Fang, Yixin ^a   Wang, Yuanjia ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Framingham Heart Study; Genome wide association; Permutation; Tracy Widom distribution

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIET RESTRICTION; FAMILY STUDY; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; CHOLESTEROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAMILY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 72849119332     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3709     Document Type: Article

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