Association tests for X-chromosomal markers-a comparison of different test statistics

Human Heredity

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-36

  Loley, Christina ^a   Ziegler, Andreas ^a   König, Inke R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Genetic association; Genome wide association; Sex specific; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEX RATIO; X CHROMOSOME;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROHN DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79851513063     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000323768     Document Type: Article

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