Haplotype kernel association test as a powerful method to identify chromosomal regions harboring uncommon causal variants

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 560-570

  Lin, Wan Yu ^a   Yi, Nengjun ^b   Lou, Xiang Yang ^b   Zhi, Degui ^b   Zhang, Kui ^b   Gao, Guimin ^c   Tiwari, Hemant K ^b   Liu, Nianjun ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; JAK2 gene; Linkage disequilibrium; Rare variants; Similarity

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; JANUS KINASE 2; LEPTIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CHROMOSOME 9P; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE KERNEL ASSOCIATION TEST; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; OBESITY; POPULATION GENETICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BODY-MASS INDEX; JAK2 GENE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; RARE VARIANTS; SIMILARITY;

ADIPOSITY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; JANUS KINASE 2; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84881617137     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21740     Document Type: Article

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