Design considerations for genetic linkage and association studies

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 850, Issue , 2012, Pages 237-262

  Nsengimana, Jérémie ^a   Bishop, D Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Association; Cryptic relatedness; Differential bias; False positives; Heterogeneity; Linkage; Marker density; Power; Sib pairs; Stratification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASES; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; HUMAN; PEDIGREE;

DISEASE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; PEDIGREE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84858168440     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-555-8_13     Document Type: Article

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