Detecting rare variants for quantitative traits using nuclear families

Human Heredity

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 148-158

  Guo, Wei ^a,b   Shugart, Yin Yao ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nuclear families; Penalized regression; Quantitative traits; Rare variants; Weights

Indexed keywords

ALACHLOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FBAT LC TEST; FBAT V0 TEST; FBAT V1 TEST; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PERFORMANCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84862203211     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000338439     Document Type: Article

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