Statistical Selection Strategy for Risk and Protective Rare Variants Associated with Complex Traits

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1034-1043

  Kim, Sera ^a   Lee, Kyeongjun ^a   Sun, Hokeun ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dallas heart study; rare variant; risk and protective variants; sequencing data

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PROTECTION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PROTECTIVE FACTORS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84946752646     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2015.0091     Document Type: Article

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