Robust and Powerful Affected Sibpair Test for Rare Variant Association

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 325-333

  Lin, Keng Han ^a   Zöllner, Sebastian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Association test; Dichotomous traits; Family studies; Rare variants; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR FAMILY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEAR FAMILY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84934437351     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21903     Document Type: Article

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