Linear Regression in Genetic Association Studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Bůžková, Petra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HETEROSCEDASTICITY; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHENOTYPE; PROCESS MODEL; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84874319780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056976     Document Type: Article

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