Detecting genetic interactions for quantitative traits with U-statistics

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 457-468

  Li, Ming ^a   Ye, Chengyin ^a   Fu, Wenjiang ^a   Elston, Robert C ^b   Lu, Qing ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forward U Test; Gene gene interaction; Nicotine dependence

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RISK; SMOKING;

EID: 80051820928     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20594     Document Type: Article

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