Methodology for the analysis of rare genetic variation in genome-wide association and re-sequencing studies of complex human traits

Briefings in Functional Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 362-370

  Moutsianas, Loukas ^a   Morris, Andrew P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burden test; Dispersion test; Genome wide association; Rare variant; Statistical methodology; Whole genome and whole exome re sequencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84964315634     PISSN: 20412649     EISSN: 20412657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elu012     Document Type: Article

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