RAREMETAL: Fast and powerful meta-analysis for rare variants

Bioinformatics

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 2828-2829

  Feng, Shuang ^a   Liu, Dajiang ^a   Zhan, Xiaowei ^a   Wing, Mary Kate ^a   Abecasis, Gonçalo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84911435067     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu367     Document Type: Article

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