Efficiency robust statistics for genetic linkage and association studies under genetic model uncertainty

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 158-180

  Joo, Jungnam ^a   Kwak, Minjung ^a   Chen, Zehua ^b   Zheng, Gang ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Case control design; GWAS; Hardy Weinberg; Linkage; MAX; MERT; Meta analysis; Restricted inference; Trios

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAMILY STUDY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MODEL; GENOME; GENOME WIDE ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PARENT; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 74849089598     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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