The admixture maximum likelihood test to test for association between rare variants and disease phenotypes

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tyrer, Jonathan P ^a   Guo, Qi ^a   Easton, Douglas F ^a   Pharoah, Paul D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PHENOTYPES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE TRAITS; RARE VARIANTS; REGRESSION MODEL; RESEARCH INTERESTS; SIMULATION TESTING; TESTING METHOD;

GENES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

TESTING;

DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASES; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

DISEASE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84878479564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-177     Document Type: Article

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