Confounded by sequencing depth in association studies of rare alleles

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 261-268

  Garner, Chad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control study; False positive association; Genome wide association; Next generation DNA sequencing

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN GENOME; PILOT STUDY; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79959544447     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20574     Document Type: Article

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