Heritability estimation using a regularized regression approach (HERRA): Applicable to continuous, dichotomous or age-at-onset outcome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Gorfine, Malka ^a   Berndt, Sonja I ^b   Chang Claude, Jenny ^c   Hoffmeister, Michael ^c   Marchand, Loic Le ^d   Potter, John ^e   Slattery, Martha L ^f   Keret, Nir ^a   Peters, Ulrike ^e   Hsu, Li ^e  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e USA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONSET AGE; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85031778574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181269     Document Type: Article

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