The Covariate's Dilemma

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Mefford, Joel ^a,b   Witte, John S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS;

EID: 84870654235     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003096     Document Type: Article

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