Study designs for identification of rare disease variants in complex diseases: The utility of family-based designs

Genetics

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1061-1068

  Ionita Laza, Iuliana ^a   Ottman, Ruth ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FAMILY STUDY; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; RECURRENCE RISK; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STUDY DESIGN;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; RARE DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 81255175654     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.131813     Document Type: Article

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