Limitations of GCTA as a solution to the missing heritability problem

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2016, Pages E61-E70

  Kumar, Siddharth Krishna ^a   Feldman, Marcus W ^a   Rehkopf, David H ^b   Tuljapurkar, Shripad ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

GCTA; GWAS; Heritability; Singular value decomposition; SNP

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME WIDE COMPLEX TRAIT ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATASETS AS TOPIC; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 84953286476     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1520109113     Document Type: Article

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