A simple yet accurate correction for winner's curse can predict signals discovered in much larger genome scans

Bioinformatics

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 2598-2603

  Bigdeli, T Bernard ^a   Lee, Donghyung ^a   Webb, Bradley Todd ^a   Riley, Brien P ^a   Vladimirov, Vladimir I ^a,b,c   Fanous, Ayman H ^a   Kendler, Kenneth S ^a   Bacanu, Silviu Alin ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84990998538     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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