Sandwich corrected standard errors in family-based genome-wide association studies

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 388-394

  Minicə, Camelia C ^a   Dolan, Conor V ^a   Kampert, Maarten M D ^b   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   Vink, Jacqueline M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; PARENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; FAMILY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84933278354     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2014.94     Document Type: Article

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