Aspects of observing and claiming allele flips in association studies

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 266-274

  Clarke, Geraldine M ^a   Cardon, Lon R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; Genetic effect; Linkage disequilibrium; Power; SNPs; Type I error rate

Indexed keywords

ALLELE FLIPPING; ALLELISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROBABILITY;

EID: 77949797723     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20458     Document Type: Article

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