Identifying genetic marker sets associated with phenotypes via an efficient adaptive score test

Biostatistics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 776-790

  Cai, Tianxi ^a   Lin, Xihong ^a   Carroll, Raymond J ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive procedures; Empirical Bayes; GWAS; Pathway analysis; Score test; SNP sets

Indexed keywords

FGFR2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTOR, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR, TYPE 2;

EID: 84866356984     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxs015     Document Type: Article

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