An omnibus test for family-based association studies with multiple SNPs and multiple phenotypes

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 720-725

  Lasky Su, Jessica ^a,b   Murphy, Amy ^a,b   McQueen, Matthew B ^c   Weiss, Scott ^a,b   Lange, Christoph ^a,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Family based association testing (FBAT); FBAT PC; Genome wide association studies; Multiple marker; Multiple phenotypes; Multiple testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FAMILY BASED ASSOCIATION TEST; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; HAPLOTYPE; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; ASTHMA; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAMILY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; PARENTS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77952671283     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2009.221     Document Type: Article

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