Genetic association in multivariate phenotypic data: Power in five models

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 525-543

  Minica, Camelia C ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^b   Van Der Sluis, Sophie ^c   Dolan, Conor V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Association; Exact data simulation; Genetic covariance structures; Multivariate; Power; Univariate

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 78650225426     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.13.6.525     Document Type: Review

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