Confounding from cryptic relatedness in haplotype-based association studies

Genetica

Volumn 138, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 945-950

  Zhang, Feng ^a   Deng, Hong Wen ^b,c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptic relatedness; Haplotype phase; Haplotype based association tests

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 77957371813     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-010-9476-6     Document Type: Article

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