Marbled inflation from population structure in gene-based association studies with rare variants

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 286-292

  Liu, Qianying ^a   Nicolae, Dan L ^a   Chen, Lin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Burden test; C alpha test; Gene based association test; Genomic control; Principal component analysis; Sequencing studies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875667844     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21714     Document Type: Article

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