Heritability, weak effects, and rare variants in genomewide association studies

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1263-1266

  Cambien, François ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PEPTIDASE; SORTILIN; UBIQUITIN SPECIFIC PEPTIDASE 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMEWIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; NOTE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 80052191652     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2010.155655     Document Type: Note

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