Statistical tests of genetic association for case-control study designs

Biostatistics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 724-733

  Wang, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control design; Genetic association; Likelihood function; Robustness; Trait model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 84866387516     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxs002     Document Type: Article

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