Accommodating population stratification in case-control association analysis: a new test and its application to genome-wide study on rheumatoid arthritis

Abstract It is well known that conventional association tests can lead to excessive false positives when there is population stratification. We propose a new test for detecting genetic association with a case-control study design. Unlike some other methods for handling population stratification, we...
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Zhang, Yufang [verfasserIn]

Xiao, Xiangjun

Wang, Kai

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E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2009

Schlagwörter:

Population Stratification

Genetic Association Study

Likelihood Ratio Test Statistic

Genetic Analysis Workshop

Structure Association

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© Zhang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2009. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (

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Enthalten in: BMC proceedings - London : BioMed Central, 2007, 3(2009), Suppl 7 vom: 15. Dez.

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volume:3 ; year:2009 ; number:Suppl 7 ; day:15 ; month:12

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DOI / URN:

10.1186/1753-6561-3-S7-S111

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SPR028431383

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