Impact of measurement error on testing genetic association with quantitative traits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Liao, Jiemin ^a,b   Li, Xiang ^b,c   Wong, Tien Yin ^a,b   Wang, Jie Jin ^d   Khor, Chiea Chuen ^a,e   Tai, Shyong ^a,f   Aung, Tin ^a,b   Teo, Yik Ying ^a,c   Cheng, Ching Yu ^a,b,f  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CATARACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REPLICATION STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; ALLELE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HYPERTENSION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL BIAS;

ALLELES; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CATARACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 84899861420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087044     Document Type: Article

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