A mixed-model approach for genome-wide association studies of correlated traits in structured populations

Nature Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1066-1071

  Korte, Arthur ^a   Vilhjálmsson, Bjarni J ^a,b   Segura, Vincent ^a,c   Platt, Alexander ^a,b   Long, Quan ^a   Nordborg, Magnus ^a,b  

^a GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c National Institute for Agricultural Research   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FINLAND; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ARABIDOPSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINLAND; FLOWERS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, PLANT; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPIDS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84865696774     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2376     Document Type: Article

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