Pleiotropy analysis of quantitative traits at gene level by multivariate functional linear models

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 259-275

  Wang, Yifan ^a   Liu, Aiyi ^a   Mills, James L ^a   Boehnke, Michael ^b   Wilson, Alexander F ^c   Bailey Wilson, Joan E ^c   Xiong, Momiao ^d   Wu, Colin O ^e   Fan, Ruzong ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^e NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Association mapping; Common variants; Complex traits; Functional data analysis; Multivariate linear models; Pleiotropy analysis; Quantitative trait loci; Rare variants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; PHENOTYPE; SOFTWARE;

GENETIC MARKER;

COHORT STUDIES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84928039907     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21895     Document Type: Article

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