Challenging False Discovery Rate: A Partition Test Based on p Values in Human Case-Control Association Studies
Author(s) -
Jürg Ott,
Zhe Liu,
Yuanyuan Shen
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
human heredity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.423
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1423-0062
pISSN - 0001-5652
DOI - 10.1159/000343752
Subject(s) - false discovery rate , single nucleotide polymorphism , snp , trait , multiple comparisons problem , partition (number theory) , genetic association , genetics , statistics , quantitative trait locus , mathematics , locus (genetics) , biology , combinatorics , gene , genotype , computer science , programming language
We consider the situation that multiple genetic variants are underlying a heritable trait and assume that each contributes to the trait only to a small degree. The aim is to develop a statistical test for disease association of these multiple variants.
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