A rapid generalized least squares model for a genome-wide quantitative trait association analysis in families

Human Heredity

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-82

  Li, Xiang ^a   Basu, Saonli ^a   Miller, Michael B ^b   Iacono, William G ^b   McGue, Matt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Family data; Generalized least squares; Genome wide scan; Population based association analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RAPID FEASIBLE GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARES MODEL WITH FAMILY COVARIANCE MATRICE; RAPID FEASIBLE GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARES MODEL WITH UNSTRUCTURED FAMILY COVARIANCE MATRICE; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 79953686237     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000324839     Document Type: Article

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