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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Main Author: Ali, Fadhaa
Other Authors: Zhang, Jian; Wang, Xue
Published: University of Kent 2015
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.643535