Quantifying the underestimation of relative risks from genome-wide association studies

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Spencer, Chris ^a   Hechter, Eliana ^b   Vukcevic, Damjan ^a   Donnelly, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALGORITHM; BREAST TUMOR; CROHN DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; RISK;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROHN DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK;

EID: 79953738130     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001337     Document Type: Article

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