An Empirical Bayes Mixture Model for Effect Size Distributions in Genome-Wide Association Studies

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Thompson, Wesley K ^a,b,c   Wang, Yunpeng ^d   Schork, Andrew J ^e   Witoelar, Aree ^d   Zuber, Verena ^d   Xu, Shujing ^c   Werge, Thomas ^a,b,f   Holland, Dominic ^g   Andreassen, Ole A ^d   Dale, Anders M ^g  

^a Mental Health Centre Sct Hans   (Denmark)

^b H LUNDBECK A S   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CROHN DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BAYES THEOREM; CROHN DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84953239702     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005717     Document Type: Article

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