X-Chromosome Genetic Association Test Accounting for X-Inactivation, Skewed X-Inactivation, and Escape from X-Inactivation

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 483-493

  Wang, Jian ^a   Yu, Robert ^a   Shete, Sanjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Escape from X chromosome inactivation; Genome wide association study; Likelihood ratio; Skewness; SNP; X chromosome; X chromosome inactivation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ALLELE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ESCAPE FROM X-CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; LIKELIHOOD RATIO; MALE; PATHOLOGY; RISK; SKEWNESS; SNP; X CHROMOSOME; X-CHROMOSOME; X-CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ESCAPE FROM X-CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; LIKELIHOOD RATIO; SKEWNESS; SNP; X-CHROMOSOME; X-CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84903796377     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21814     Document Type: Article

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