An Adaptive Association Test for Multiple Phenotypes with GWAS Summary Statistics

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 651-663

  Kim, Junghi ^a   Bai, Yun ^a   Pan, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive sum of powered score test; GEE; Meta analysis; Multivariate trait; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; META ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

GENETIC MARKER; LIPID;

GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84954389903     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21931     Document Type: Article

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