Integrative modeling of multi-platform genomic data under the framework of mediation analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 162-178

  Huang, Yen Tsung ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Epigenetics; Genetic association studies; Path specific effect; SNP set analysis; Variance component test

Indexed keywords

GRB10 PROTEIN, HUMAN; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR BOUND PROTEIN 10; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; ORMDL3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ASTHMA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GLIOBLASTOMA; GRB10 ADAPTOR PROTEIN; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84914816727     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6326     Document Type: Article

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