Testing for association in case-control genome-wide association studies with shared controls

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 954-967

  Chen, Zhongxue ^a   Huang, Hanwen ^b   Ng, Hon Keung Tony ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

chi square partition; Cochran Armitage trend test; robust test; single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; BREAST CANCER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BREAST TUMOR; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84964265445     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280212474061     Document Type: Article

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