Fast and powerful heritability inference for family-based neuroimaging studies

NeuroImage

Volumn 115, Issue , 2015, Pages 256-268

  Ganjgahi, Habib ^a   Winkler, Anderson M ^b,c   Glahn, David C ^c,d   Blangero, John ^e   Kochunov, Peter ^f   Nichols, Thomas E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF LIVING   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heritability; Multiple testing problem; Permutation test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FAMILY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HERITABILITY; HERITABILITY INFERENCE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROIMAGING; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FAMILY; GENETICS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84937971395     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.03.005     Document Type: Article

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