Advantages and pitfalls in the application of mixed-model association methods

Nature Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 100-106

  Yang, Jian ^a   Zaitlen, Noah A ^b   Goddard, Michael E ^c   Visscher, Peter M ^a   Price, Alkes L ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE CONTROL STUDY; COST CONTROL; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MIXED LINEAR MODEL ASSOCIATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84895801913     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2876     Document Type: Review

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