Improving the power of GWAS and avoiding confounding from population stratification with PC-select

Genetics

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1045-1049

  Tucker, George ^a   Price, Alkes L ^b   Berger, Bonnie ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYBRID; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84904268458     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.164285     Document Type: Note

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