A Linkage Disequilibrium-Based Approach to Selecting Disease-Associated Rare Variants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Talluri, Rajesh ^a   Shete, Sanjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRNA3 GENE; CHRNA5 GENE; CHRNB4 GENE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRD2 GENE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; RARE VARIANT; SIMULATION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPMAP PROJECT; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2;

EID: 84880081807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069226     Document Type: Article

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