Robust estimation for secondary trait association in case-control genetic studies

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 179, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1264-1272

  Tapsoba, Jean De Dieu ^a   Kooperberg, Charles ^a,b   Reiner, Alexander ^b   Wang, Ching Yun ^b   Dai, James Y ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

case control sampling; design consistency; inverse probability weighting; maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLETE CASE ESTIMATOR; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTED ESTIMATOR; KERNEL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SECONDARY TRAIT;

CASE-CONTROL SAMPLING; DESIGN CONSISTENCY; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84900323820     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwu039     Document Type: Article

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