Comparison of statistical tests for disease association with rare variants

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 606-619

  Basu, Saonli ^a   Pan, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

C alpha test; Kernel machine regression; Logistic regression; Model selection; Permutation; Pooled association tests; Random effects models; SSU test; Statistical power; Sum test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE MUTATION; KERNEL METHOD; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; VARIANCE;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054728031     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20609     Document Type: Article

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