Adjusting for heritable covariates can bias effect estimates in genome-wide association studies

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 329-339

  Aschard, Hugues ^a   Vilhjálmsson, Bjarni J ^a   Joshi, Amit D ^a   Price, Alkes L ^a   Kraft, Peter ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

BODY MASS INDEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 84925146347     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.12.021     Document Type: Article

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