Similarity-Based Multimarker Association Tests for Continuous Traits

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 246-260

  Lin, Wan Yu ^a   Tiwari, Hemant K ^a   Gao, Guimin ^b   Zhang, Kui ^a   Arcaroli, John J ^c   Abraham, Edward ^d   Liu, Nianjun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; CPE gene; Genomic distance; Haplotype; Linkage disequilibrium; Multimarker test; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADIPOSITY; COMPUTERS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84859703815     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2012.00706.x     Document Type: Article

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