A robust method for testing association in genome-wide association studies

Human Heredity

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-34

  Chen, Zhongxue ^a   Ng, Hon Keung Tony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic association; Robust test; SNP; Trend test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED ORDER RESTRICTED RELATIVE RISKS MODEL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMETERS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84855182978     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334719     Document Type: Article

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