P < 5 × 10-8 has emerged as a standard of statistical significance for genome-wide association studies

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 460-465

  Jannot, Anne Sophie ^a   Ehret, Georg ^a   Perneger, Thomas ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evaluation studies as topic; False discovery rate; Genome wide association study; Multiple testing; Significance thresholds; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; DATA BASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; PROCEDURES;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84925350670     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.01.001     Document Type: Article

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