Testing Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium using the generalized linear model

Genetics Research

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 319-330

  Xu, Shizhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HARDY WEINBERG DISEQUILIBRIUM; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; NULL HYPOTHESIS; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84873418260     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672312000511     Document Type: Article

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