Estimation of effect size distribution from genome-wide association studies and implications for future discoveries

Nature Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 570-575

  Park, Ju Hyun ^a   Wacholder, Sholom ^a   Gail, Mitchell H ^a   Peters, Ulrike ^b   Jacobs, Kevin B ^c   Chanock, Stephen J ^a,c   Chatterjee, Nilanjan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; COLORECTAL CANCER; CROHN DISEASE; EFFECT SIZE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

ALGORITHMS; BODY HEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PENETRANCE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77954133026     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.610     Document Type: Article

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