Critical reasoning on causal inference in genome-wide linkage and association studies

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 493-498

  Li, Yang ^a   Tesson, Bruno M ^a   Churchill, Gary A ^b   Jansen, Ritsert C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 78549270383     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2010.09.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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