Adjusting family relatedness in data-driven burden test of rare variants

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 722-727

  Zhang, Qunyuan ^a   Wang, Lihua ^a   Koboldt, Dan ^a   Boreki, Ingrid B ^a   Province, Michael A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Burden test; Family data; Mixed model; Permutation; Rare variants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA DRIVEN BURDEN TEST; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FAMILY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; RARE VARIANT; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM;

GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84910641691     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21848     Document Type: Article

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