Quick, "Imputation-free" meta-analysis with proxy-SNPs

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Meesters, Christian ^a,b,c   Leber, Markus ^b   Herold, Christine ^a   Angisch, Marina ^b   Mattheisen, Manuel ^b,d   Drichel, Dmitriy ^a   Lacour, André ^a   Becker, Tim ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c AESKUKIPP Institute   (Germany)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAST METHODS; FILE FORMATS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPING; IN-PHASE; INPUT FILES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; META-ANALYSIS; MISSING MARKERS; P-VALUES; POWER-LOSSES; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; PROXY ALGORITHMS; REFERENCE DATA; RESULT VERIFICATIONS; TYPE II DIABETES;

GENES;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ALLELE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HAPMAP PROJECT; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84866021086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-231     Document Type: Article

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