Optimal methods for meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 581-591

  Zhou, Baiyu ^a   Shi, Jianxin ^b   Whittemore, Alice S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Combining GWAS; Effect size heterogeneity; Meta analysis; Non centrality parameter; Score statistics; Wald statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PHENOTYPE; POWER ANALYSIS; POWER OF A TEST; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; VARIANCE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 80054764048     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20603     Document Type: Article

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