Weighted pedigree-based statistics for testing the association of rare variants

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Shugart, Yin Yao ^a   Zhu, Yun ^b   Guo, Wei ^a   Xiong, Momiao ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Collapsing; GWAS; Next generation sequencing; Pedigree; Rare Variants

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84869867641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-667     Document Type: Article

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