Evaluating the power to discriminate between highly correlated SNPs in genetic association studies

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 463-468

  Udler, Miriam S ^a   Tyrer, Jonathan ^b   Easton, Douglas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fine scale mapping; Genetic association study; Genome wide association study; Linkage disequilibrium; Power calculation; SNPs

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; EFFECT SIZE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTERNET; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTOR, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR, TYPE 2; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 77954209295     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20504     Document Type: Article

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