Improving power for testing genetic association in case-control studies by reducing the alternative space

Biometrics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 266-276

  Joo, Jungnam ^a   Kwak, Minjung ^a   Zheng, Gang ^a  

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

Author keywords

Genetic models; Hardy Weinberg disequilibrium; MAX; Robust tests; Trend tests

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; GENES;

CASE-CONTROL STUDY; CHI-SQUARED TEST; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC MODELS; HARDY-WEINBERG DISEQUILIBRIUM; IMPROVING POWER; MAX; MODEL SELECTION; ROBUST TESTS; TREND TESTS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

ALLELE; DATA SET; DISEASE SPREAD; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; TREND ANALYSIS;

GENETIC MARKER;

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 77949693572     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01241.x     Document Type: Article

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