SeqSIMLA: A sequence and phenotype simulation tool for complex disease studies

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chung, Ren Hua ^a   Shih, Chung Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTABLE RISKS; GENOMIC STRUCTURE; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAITS; RECOMBINATION RATE; STATISTICAL POWER; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

STATISTICAL METHODS; TOOLS;

DISEASE CONTROL;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84879079840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-199     Document Type: Article

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