Analysis of case-control association studies: SNPs, imputation and haplotypes

Statistical Science

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 489-502

  Chatterjee, Nilanjan ^a   Chen, Yi Hau ^b   Luo, Sheng ^c   Carroll, Raymond J ^d  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Empirical Bayes; Genetic epidemiology; Haplotypes; Model averaging; Model robustness; Model selection; Retrospective studies; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955133643     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-STS297     Document Type: Article

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