Controlling false positives in the mapping of epistatic QTL

Heredity

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 401-409

  Wei, W H ^a,b   Knott, S ^c   Haley, C S ^a,b   De Koning, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epistasis; False positive; Multiple testing; Nested test framework; Power; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

EPISTASIS; GENOME; MAPPING METHOD; NESTING BEHAVIOR;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 77950075619     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2009.129     Document Type: Article

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