An Efficient Multiple-Testing Adjustment for eQTL Studies that Accounts for Linkage Disequilibrium between Variants

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 216-224

  Davis, Joe R ^a   Fresard, Laure ^b   Knowles, David A ^c   Pala, Mauro ^d   Bustamante, Carlos D ^a   Battle, Alexis ^e   Montgomery, Stephen B ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d Milan Unit   (Italy)

^e Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECOMPOSITION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84954372770     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.11.021     Document Type: Article

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