A novel approach for the simultaneous analysis of common and rare variants in complex traits

Bioinformatics and Biology Insights

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-9

  Yuan, Ao ^a   Chen, Guanjie ^b   Zhou, Yanxun ^c   Bentley, Amy ^b   Rotimi, Charles ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Suizhou Central Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Association; Common variant; Haplotype; Rare variant

Indexed keywords

TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; OBESITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIMULTANEOUS COMMON AND RARE VARIANT ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84864392042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11779322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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