Leveraging multi-ethnic evidence for mapping complex traits in minority populations: An empirical Bayes approach

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 740-752

  Coram, Marc A ^a,g   Candille, Sophie I ^a   Duan, Qing ^b   Chan, Kei Hang K ^c   Li, Yun ^b,d   Kooperberg, Charles ^e   Reiner, Alex P ^e,f   Tang, Hua ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IL   (United States)

^e Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BODY MASS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BAYES THEOREM; CAUCASIAN; GENETICS; MINORITY GROUP; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BAYES THEOREM; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MINORITY GROUPS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84929267532     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.03.008     Document Type: Article

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