Family-based bivariate association tests for quantitative traits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Lei ^a,b   Bonham, Aaron J ^b   Li, Jian ^b   Pei, Yu Fang ^a,b   Chen, Jie ^c   Papasian, Christopher J ^b   Deng, Hong Wen ^a,b,d,e  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^d SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FAMILY BASED ASSOCIATION TEST GENERALIZED ESTIMATION EQUATION; FAMILY BASED ASSOCIATION TEST PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; FAMILY STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; DATABASES, GENETIC; FAMILY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; PARENTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 77953998853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008133     Document Type: Article

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