A Flexible Approach for the Analysis of Rare Variants Allowing for a Mixture of Effects on Binary or Quantitative Traits

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Clarke, Geraldine M ^a   Rivas, Manuel A ^a   Morris, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENERALIZED C ALPHA TEST; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RISK FACTOR;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84884635946     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003694     Document Type: Article

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