Controlling population structure in human genetic association studies with samples of unrelated individuals

Statistics and its Interface

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 317-326

  Liu, Nianjun ^a   Zhao, Hongyu ^b   Patki, Amit ^a   Limdi, Nita A ^c   Allison, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic association analysis; Phrases: Mixed effects model; Population structure admixture; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864388812     PISSN: 19387989     EISSN: 19387997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/sii.2011.v4.n3.a6     Document Type: Article

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