Reevaluation of SNP heritability in complex human traits

Nature Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 986-992

  Speed, Doug ^a   Cai, Na ^b,c   Johnson, Michael R ^d   Nejentsev, Sergey ^e   Balding, David J ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALLELE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITES; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 85021765664     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3865     Document Type: Article

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