Statistical methods for detecting genetic risk factors of a disease with applications to genome-wide association studies
This thesis aims to develop various statistical methods for analysing the data derived from genome wide association studies (GWAS). The GWAS often involves genotyping individual human genetic variation, using high-throughput genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays, in thousands of in...
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University of Kent
2015
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Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.643535 |