GWAPower: A statistical power calculation software for genome-wide association studies with quantitative traits

BMC Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Feng, Sheng ^a   Wang, Shengchu ^a   Chen, Chia Cheng ^b   Lan, Lan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GWAPOWER; HERITABILITY; POWER ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICS;

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 78651530238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-12-12     Document Type: Article

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