A fast multilocus test with adaptive SNP selection for large-scale genetic-association studies

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 696-702

  Zhang, Han ^a   Shi, Jianxin ^a   Liang, Faming ^b   Wheeler, William ^c   Stolzenberg Solomon, Rachael ^a   Yu, Kai ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

cis regulating meQTLs mapping; genome wide association study; multilocus test; multiple comparisons; pathway analysis; variable selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE JOINT TEST; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CLPTM1L GENE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENETICS; PANCREAS TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84898797227     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2013.201     Document Type: Article

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