Systematic removal of outliers to reduce heterogeneity in case-control association studies

Human Heredity

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 227-231

  Shen, Yuanyuan ^a   Liu, Zhe ^a   Ott, Jurg ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Multidimensional scaling; Outliers; Permutation; Principal components

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; RANDOM SAMPLE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; PARKINSON DISEASE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 77957306554     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000320422     Document Type: Article

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