iGWAS: Integrative Genome-Wide Association Studies of Genetic and Genomic Data for Disease Susceptibility Using Mediation Analysis

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 347-356

  Huang, Yen Tsung ^a   Liang, Liming ^b   Moffatt, Miriam F ^c   Cookson, William O C M ^c   Lin, Xihong ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childhood asthma; Genome wide association studies; Integrative genomics; Mediation analysis; Variance component tests

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAMILY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAMILY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84934441761     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21905     Document Type: Article

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