A general framework for detecting disease associations with rare variants in sequencing studies

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 354-367

  Lin, Dan Yu ^a   Tang, Zheng Zheng ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RARE DISEASES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 80052731371     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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