Detection of parent-of-origin effects for quantitative traits in complete and incomplete nuclear families with multiple children

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 226-233

  He, Feng ^a   Zhou, Ji Yuan ^b   Hu, Yue Qing ^c   Sun, Fengzhu ^d   Yang, Jingyuan ^e   Lin, Shili ^e   Fung, Wing Kam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

genomic imprinting; quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; FAMILY STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; TESTING METHOD;

ARTICLE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PARENTAGE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PARENTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 79960527502     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwr056     Document Type: Article

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