An Optimal Weighted Aggregated Association Test for Identification of Rare Variants Involved in Common Diseases

Genetics

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 181-188

  Sul, Jae Hoon ^a   Han, Buhm ^a   He, Dan ^a   Eskin, Eleazar ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE VARIANT WEIGHTED AGGREGATE STATISTIC; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DISEASE; GENES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RISK FACTORS;

ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA;

EID: 79955941239     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.125070     Document Type: Article

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