A Gaussian copula approach for the analysis of secondary phenotypes in case-control genetic association studies

Biostatistics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 497-508

  He, Jing ^a   Li, Hongzhe ^a   Edmondson, Andrew C ^a   Rader, Daniel J ^a   Li, Mingyao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Statistical genetics; Statistical methods in Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPG PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LIPASE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84863567642     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxr025     Document Type: Article

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