Massively expedited genome-wide heritability analysis (MEGHA)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2479-2484

  Ge, Tian ^a,b   Nichols, Thomas E ^c   Lee, Phil H ^a,b   Holmes, Avram J ^d   Roffman, Joshua L ^a   Buckner, Randy L ^a,e   Sabuncu, Mert R ^a,f   Smoller, Jordan W ^a,b   Caskey, C Thomas ^g  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Psychology Yale University ^*  (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endophenotype; Genome wide complex trait analysis; Heritability; Imaging genetics; Phenomics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MASSIVELY EXPEDITED GENOME WIDE HERITABILITY ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN GENOME; INHERITANCE; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; TIME;

ADULT; BRAIN; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84923668372     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1415603112     Document Type: Article

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