Refining genetically inferred relationships using Treelet Covariance Smoothing

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 669-690

  Crossett, Andrew ^a   Lee, Ann B ^b   Klei, Lambertus ^c   Devlin, Bernie ^c   Roeder, Kathryn ^b  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance estimation; Cryptic relatedness; Genome wide association; Heritability; Kinship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879536607     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/12-AOAS598     Document Type: Article

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