Correcting Away the Hidden Heritability

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 348-350

  Williams, Scott M ^a   Haines, Jonathan L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex disease; GWAS; Heritability; Multiple testing

Indexed keywords

FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS;

EID: 79954594698     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2011.00640.x     Document Type: Note

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