Contrasting linkage disequilibrium as a multilocus family-based association test

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 487-498

  Yu, Zhaoxia ^a   Wang, Shuang ^b  

^a 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Association mapping; Case parents; Composite linkage disequilibrium; Gene gene interaction; Multilocus analysis; Nuclear family

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; FAMILY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PARENT; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROHN DISEASE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEDIGREE;

EID: 80051816312     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20598     Document Type: Article

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