Rapid variance components-based method for whole-genome association analysis

Nature Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1166-1170

  Svishcheva, Gulnara R ^a   Axenovich, Tatiana I ^a   Belonogova, Nadezhda M ^a   Van Duijn, Cornelia M ^b   Aulchenko, Yurii S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE COMPONENT TEST;

ALGORITHMS; ARABIDOPSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84866946205     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2410     Document Type: Article

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