Contrasting the Genetic Architecture of 30 Complex Traits from Summary Association Data

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 139-153

  Shi, Huwenbo ^a   Kichaev, Gleb ^a   Pasaniuc, Bogdan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

DATASETS AS TOPIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84989850756     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.05.013     Document Type: Article

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