Disease model distortion in association studies

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 278-290

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case control; Epistasis; Genome wide association study (GWAS); Interaction; Linkage disequilibrium (LD); Nonadditive; Nonmultiplicative; Tag SNP

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; ALLELE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

GENETIC MARKER;

ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 79959569855     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20576     Document Type: Article

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