Using Both Cases and Controls for Testing Hardy-Weinberg Proportions in a Genetic Association Study

Human Heredity

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 212-218

  Wang, Jian ^a   Shete, Sanjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control association study; Hardy Weinberg proportion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; OBESITY; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949992467     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000289597     Document Type: Article

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