Estimating the mode of inheritance in genetic association studies of qualitative traits based on the degree of dominance index

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zintzaras, Elias ^a,b   Santos, Mauro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DOMINANT GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GENETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEDIGREE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 83755196748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-171     Document Type: Article

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