The empirical power of rare variant association methods: Results from sanger sequencing in 1,998 individuals

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Ladouceur, Martin ^a,b   Dastani, Zari ^a,b   Aulchenko, Yurii S ^c,d   Greenwood, Celia M T ^a,b   Richards, J Brent ^a,b,e,f  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSAL MODELING; EFFECT SIZE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; STATISTICAL MODEL;

PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PLA2G7 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; SAMPLE SIZE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84859171835     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002496     Document Type: Article

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