Conditions under which genome-wide association studies will be positively misleading

Genetics

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1045-1052

  Platt, Alexander ^a,b   Vilhjálmsson, Bjarni J ^a   Nordborg, Magnus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPISTASIS; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENOME; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOME, PLANT; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 78951470427     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.121665     Document Type: Article

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