A Unified Mixed-Effects Model for Rare-Variant Association in Sequencing Studies

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 334-344

  Sun, Jianping ^a   Zheng, Yingye ^a   Hsu, Li ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisher's procedure; Rare variants; Score statistics; Set based association; Variant characteristics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; KERNEL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PHENOTYPE; RARE VARIANT ASSOCIATION; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84876410197     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21717     Document Type: Article

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