Genomic structural equation modelling provides insights into the multivariate genetic architecture of complex traits

Nature Human Behaviour

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 513-525

  Grotzinger, Andrew D ^a   Rhemtulla, Mijke ^b   de Vlaming, Ronald ^c,d   Ritchie, Stuart J ^e   Mallard, Travis T ^a   Hill, W David ^e   Ip, Hill F ^f   Marioni, Riccardo E ^e   McIntosh, Andrew M ^e   Deary, Ian J ^e   Koellinger, Philipp D ^c,d   Harden, K Paige ^a   Nivard, Michel G ^f   Tucker Drob, Elliot M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 85064015118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23973374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0566-x     Document Type: Article

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