Genetic Association Test for Multiple Traits at Gene Level

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 122-129

  Guo, Xiaobo ^a,b   Liu, Zhifa ^a   Wang, Xueqin ^b,c   Zhang, Heping ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gene based association test; Generalized Kendall's tau; Multiple traits; Substance dependence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRAIT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALCOHOLISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84871054865     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21688     Document Type: Article

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