Statistical Power to Detect Genetic (Co)Variance of Complex Traits Using SNP Data in Unrelated Samples

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Visscher, Peter M ^a   Hemani, Gibran ^a   Vinkhuyzen, Anna A E ^a   Chen, Guo Bo ^a   Lee, Sang Hong ^a   Wray, Naomi R ^a   Goddard, Michael E ^b,c   Yang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; ONLINE SYSTEM; OVERLAPPING GENE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84901380413     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004269     Document Type: Article

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