Evaluation of a Two-Stage Approach in Trans-Ethnic Meta-Analysis in Genome-Wide Association Studies

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 284-292

  Hong, Jaeyoung ^a   Lunetta, Kathryn L ^a   Cupples, L Adrienne ^a,b   Dupuis, Josée ^a,b   Liu, Ching Ti ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering strategy; GWAS; Heterogeneity; Meta analysis; Simulation study; Trans ethnic meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINARY EFFECT MODEL; CALCULATION; ETHNICITY; FIXED EFFECT MODEL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; META ANALYSIS OF TRANSETHNIC ASSOCIATION; RANDOM EFFECT MODEL; RANDOM EFFECT MODEL BY HAN AND ESKIN; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME 21; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHNIC GROUP; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, GENETIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84963673278     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21963     Document Type: Article

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