P-value based analysis for shared controls design in genome-wide association studies

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 725-738

  Zaykin, Dmitri V ^a   Kozbur, Damian O ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Combining correlated P values; GWAS; Meta analysis; Multiple testing; Shared controls

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 77958596172     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20536     Document Type: Article

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