Residual-based Test of Conditional Association between Continuous and Ordinal Variables with Application to Genome-wide Association Studies
The discovery of genes linked with a large array of diseases has been accelerated by genome-wide association studies (GWAS), in which genetic variants in different individuals are examined for relationship with a specified phenotype. Most GWAS analyses require modeling the association between single...
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07082014-144310/ |