A powerful and adaptive association test for rare variants

Genetics

Volumn 197, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1081-1095

  Pan, Wei ^a   Kim, Junghi ^a   Zhang, Yiwei ^a   Shen, Xiaotong ^b   Wei, Peng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive SPU (aSPU) test; Genome wide association study (GWAS); Score statistic; Sequencing data sum of powered score (SPU) test; Sum of squared score (SSU) test; Sum test

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84905641353     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.165035     Document Type: Article

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