Joint rare variant association test of the average and individual effects for sequencing studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Yuanjia ^a   Chen, Yin Hsiu ^b   Yang, Qiong ^c  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Boston University ^*  (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST; JOINT SCORE TEST; KERNEL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHENOTYPE; PROCESS MODEL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUMMED SCORE TEST; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84863351695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032485     Document Type: Article

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