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PMID
19207019
TITLE
Family-based genome-wide association studies.
ABSTRACT
In the last 2 years, the effort to identify genes affecting common diseases and complex traits has been accelerated through the use of genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The availability of existing large collections of linkage data paved the way for the use of family-based GWAS. Although most published GWAS used population-based designs, family-based designs have played an important role, particularly in replication stages. Family-based designs offer advantages in terms of quality control, the robustness to population stratification and the ability to perform genetic analyses that cannot be achieved using a sample of unrelated individuals, such as testing for the effect of imprinted genes on phenotypes, testing whether a genetic variant is inherited or de novo and combined linkage and association analysis.
DATE PUBLISHED
2009 Feb
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
entrez 2009/02/12 09:00
pubmed 2009/02/12 09:00
medline 2009/05/19 09:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Benyamin B Benyamin Beben B Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD 4029, Australia. bebenB@qimr.edu.au
Visscher PM Visscher Peter M PM
McRae AF McRae Allan F AF
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 10
ISSUE: 2
TITLE: Pharmacogenomics
ISOABBREVIATION: Pharmacogenomics
YEAR: 2009
MONTH: Feb
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 1744-8042
ISSNTYPE: Electronic
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Pharmacogenomics
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 1462-2416
NLMUNIQUEID: 100897350
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Review
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Chromosome Mapping
Family
Female
Genetic Diseases, Inborn genetics
Genetic Variation genetics
Genome, Human genetics
Genome-Wide Association Study methods
Genomic Imprinting methods
Humans methods
Male methods
Pedigree methods
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's