Mining gold dust under the genome wide significance level: A two-stage approach to analysis of GWAS

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 111-118

  Shi, Gang ^a   Boerwinkle, Eric ^b   Morrison, Alanna C ^b   Gu C , Charles ^a   Chakravarti, Aravinda ^c   Rao, D C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; FDR; LASSO; Multi marker; Power

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

AURINIA SAXATILIS;

EID: 78751507648     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20556     Document Type: Article

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