Correction for multiple testing in a gene region

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 414-418

  Hendricks, Audrey E ^a,d   Dupuis, Josée ^a,b   Logue, Mark W ^a,c   Myers, Richard H ^c   Lunetta, Kathryn L ^a  

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

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bonferroni; correlated; effective; independent; permutation; type I error

Indexed keywords

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETIC TESTING; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84894370677     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2013.144     Document Type: Article

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