Relative performance of gene- and pathway-level methods as secondary analyses for genome-wide association studies

BMC Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Wojcik, Genevieve L ^a,b   Kao, Linda ^a   Duggal, Priya ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological Pathways; Gene Set; Genome wide Association Studies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHENOTYPE; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BIOLOGY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84926623811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12863-015-0191-2     Document Type: Article

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