Using evidence for population stratification bias in combined individual- and family-level genetic association analyses of quantitative traits

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 502-511

  Mirea, Lucia ^a,b   Sun, Lei ^a   Stafford, James E ^a   Bull, Shelley B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Population structure bias; QTDT; Statistical accuracy and positive predictive value; Transmission disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STRATIFIED SAMPLE;

ALLELES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 77954182347     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20506     Document Type: Article

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