An evaluation of statistical approaches to rare variant analysis in genetic association studies

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 188-193

  Morris, Andrew P ^a   Zeggini, Eleftheria ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genome wide association data; Rare variant association; Re sequencing data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; SIMULATION;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 76649136928     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20450     Document Type: Article

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