Rare variant association testing by adaptive combination of P-values

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lin, Wan Yu ^a   Lou, Xiang Yang ^b   Gao, Guimin ^c   Liu, Nianjun ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE COMBINATION OF P VALUES FOR RARE VARIANT ASSOCIATION TESTING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84898618563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085728     Document Type: Article

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