Flexible semiparametric analysis of longitudinal genetic studies by reduced rank smoothing

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-24

  Wang, Yuanjia ^a   Huang, Chiahui ^a   Fang, Yixin ^b   Yang, Qiong ^c   Li, Runze ^d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genomewide association study; Penalized splines; Quantitative trait locus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856039615     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2011.01016.x     Document Type: Article

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