RL-SKAT: An exact and efficient score test for heritability and set tests

Genetics

Volumn 207, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1275-1283

  Schweiger, Regev ^a   Weissbrod, Omer ^b   Rahmani, Elior ^a   Müller Nurasyid, Martina ^c,f,g   Kunze, Sonja ^d,e   Gieger, Christian ^d,e   Waldenberger, Melanie ^d,e,g   Rosset, Saharon ^a   Halperin, Eran ^h,i  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Institute of Epidemiology   (Germany)

^d Institute of Epidemiology II   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

^h Engineering IV   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heritability; Set tests; SKAT; Statistical genetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HERITABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RL SEQUENCE KERNEL ASSOCIATION TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VARIANCE; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85037035998     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.117.300395     Document Type: Article

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