A Comparison of Association Methods Correcting for Population Stratification in Case-Control Studies

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 418-427

  Wu, Chengqing ^a   Dewan, Andrew ^a   Hoh, Josephine ^a   Wang, Zuoheng ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Association testing; Population structure; Power; Type I error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 79954585465     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2010.00639.x     Document Type: Article

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