Rare Variant Analysis for Family-Based Design

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  De, Gourab ^a   Yip, Wai Ki ^a   Ionita Laza, Iuliana ^b   Laird, Nan ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FAMILY BASED DESIGN; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION GENETICS; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAMILY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84872389630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048495     Document Type: Article

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