Accounting for multiple comparisons in a genome-wide association study (GWAS)

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Johnson, Randall C ^a,b   Nelson, George W ^a   Troyer, Jennifer L ^a   Lautenberger, James A ^c   Kessing, Bailey D ^a   Winkler, Cheryl A ^a   O'Brien, Stephen J ^c  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; TIME;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650353878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-724     Document Type: Article

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