Kernel machine SNP-set testing under multiple candidate kernels

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 267-275

  Wu, Michael C ^a   Maity, Arnab ^b   Lee, Seunggeun ^c   Simmons, Elizabeth M ^a   Harmon, Quaker E ^a   Lin, Xinyi ^c   Engel, Stephanie M ^a   Molldrem, Jeffrey J ^d   Armistead, Paul M ^e  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic association studies; Kernel machines; Multi SNP analysis; Similarity based testing; SNP sets

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; KERNEL METHOD; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84875658304     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21715     Document Type: Article

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