Comprehensive literature review and statistical considerations for GWAS meta-analysis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3777-3784

  Begum, Ferdouse ^a   Ghosh, Debashis ^b   Tseng, George C ^a,c   Feingold, Eleanor ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY; CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA PROCESSING; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MODEL; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LITERATURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84861378533     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1255     Document Type: Review

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