Testing for polygenic effects in genome-wide association studies

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 306-316

  Pan, Wei ^a   Chen, Yue Ming ^b   Wei, Peng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

ASPU test; GWAS; Logistic regression; Polygenic variation; SPU tests; SSU test; SSUw test; Sum test

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; POLYGENIC RISK SCORE TEST; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALGORITHM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; RISK FACTOR;

ALCOHOLISM; ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84928049281     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21899     Document Type: Article

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