A statistical method for scanning the genome for regions with rare disease alleles

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 386-395

  Garner, Chad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control study; DNA sequencing; Genetic association; Hidden Markov model; Rare disease alleles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; RARE DISEASE;

ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77954196471     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20483     Document Type: Article

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