A Method for gene-based pathway analysis using genomewide association study summary statistics reveals nine new type 1 diabetes associations

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 661-670

  Evangelou, Marina ^a   Smyth, Deborah J ^a   Fortune, Mary D ^a   Burren, Oliver S ^a   Walker, Neil M ^a   Guo, Hui ^a   Onengut Gumuscu, Suna ^b   Chen, Wei Min ^b   Concannon, Patrick ^b,d   Rich, Stephen S ^b   Todd, John A ^a   Wallace, Chris ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genomewide association data; Meta analysis; Pathway analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84910614680     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21853     Document Type: Article

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