Tests for compositional epistasis under single interaction-parameter models

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 146-156

  VanderWeele, Tyler J ^a   Laird, Nan M ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistasis; Gene gene interaction; Linear models; Multiplicative models; Study designs

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN; NON RECEPTOR PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE 22;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPOSITIONAL EPISTASIS; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; FAMILY STUDY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC MODEL; GENOTYPE; INHERITANCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRATIFIED SAMPLE;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FAMILY; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 78650118237     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2010.00600.x     Document Type: Article

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