The mystery of missing heritability: Genetic interactions create phantom heritability

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1193-1198

  Zuk, Or ^a   Hechter, Eliana ^a   Sunyaev, Shamil R ^a,b   Lander, Eric S ^a  

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome wide association studies; Statistical genetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE;

EID: 84856405512     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119675109     Document Type: Article

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