Accounting for linkage disequilibrium in association analysis of diverse populations

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 265-273

  Charles, Bashira A ^a   Shriner, Daniel ^a   Rotimi, Charles N ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

African ancestry; Fine mapping; Genome wide association study

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; EUROPE; FOLLOW UP; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICAN ANCESTRY; FINE-MAPPING; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FASTING; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84895921338     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21788     Document Type: Review

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