Uncovering the total heritability explained by all true susceptibility variants in a genome-wide association study

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 447-456

  So, Hon Cheong ^a   Li, Miaoxin ^a   Sham, Pak C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Association study; Common variants; Genetic architecture

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; CROHN DISEASE; EFFECT SIZE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICS;

EID: 80051807776     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20593     Document Type: Article

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