Phenotypic complexity, measurement bias, and poor phenotypic resolution contribute to the missing heritability problem in genetic association studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  van der Sluis, Sophie ^a   Verhage, Matthijs ^a   Posthuma, Danielle ^a   Dolan, Conor V ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 78649746026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013929     Document Type: Article

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