A versatile omnibus test for detecting mean and variance heterogeneity

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 51-59

  Cao, Ying ^a   Wei, Peng ^a   Bailey, Matthew ^b   Kauwe, John S K ^b   Maxwell, Taylor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

G E; G G; GWAS; Linkage disequilibrium; RQTL; VQTL

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 3; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84890198059     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21778     Document Type: Article

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