Bayesian Methods for Genetic Association Studies

We develop statistical methods for tackling two important problems in genetic association studies. First, we propose a Bayesian approach to overcome the winner's curse in genetic studies. Second, we consider a Bayesian latent variable model for analyzing longitudinal family data with pleiotr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xu, Lizhen
Other Authors: Craiu, Radu V.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/34972