A variance component based multi-marker association test using family and unrelated data

BMC Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Xuefeng ^a   Morris, Nathan J ^b   Zhu, Xiaofeng ^b   Elston, Robert C ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Association studies; Family data; Multi marker test; Score test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FAMILY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; KERNEL METHOD; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84874443422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-14-17     Document Type: Article

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