Digging into the extremes: A useful approach for the analysis of rare variants with continuous traits?

BMC Proceedings

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 9, 2011, Pages

  Lamina, Claudia ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 3A; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR D; PROTEIN ELAVL4; PROTEIN GCKR; PROTEIN INSIG1; PROTEIN VNN1; PROTEIN VNN3; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR BETA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SIRTUIN 1; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN C; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

CONFERENCE PAPER; FISHERMAN; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 82455170369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17536561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1753-6561-5-S9-S105     Document Type: Conference Paper

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