What is the significance of difference in phenotypic variability across SNP genotypes?

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 390-397

  Sun, Xiangqing ^a   Elston, Robert ^a   Morris, Nathan ^a   Zhu, Xiaofeng ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARTLETT TEST; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; LEVENE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDITY;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; GENETIC LOCI; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84881662190     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.06.017     Document Type: Article

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