Empirical Bayes Correction for the Winner's Curse in Genetic Association Studies

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-68

  Ferguson, John P ^a   Cho, Judy H ^a   Yang, Can ^b   Zhao, Hongyu ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GWAS, Empirical Bayes; Winner's Curse

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BAYES THEOREM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROHN DISEASE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 84871083518     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21683     Document Type: Article

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