Browsing by Author "0457098"
Now showing items 1-2 of 2
-
A genome-wide association study of variants associated with acquisition of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in a healthcare setting.
Ahn, SH; Allen, AS; Cowell, LG; Fowler, Vance Garrison Jr; Nelson, CL; Pelak, K; Podgoreanu, Mihai V; ... (13 authors) (BMC Infect Dis, 2014-02-13)BACKGROUND: Humans vary in their susceptibility to acquiring Staphylococcus aureus infection, and research suggests that there is a genetic basis for this variability. Several recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) ... -
Application of a rank-based genetic association test to age-at-onset data from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism study.
Li, YJ; Martin, ER; Zhang, L; Allen, AS (BMC Genet, 2005-12-30)Association studies of quantitative traits have often relied on methods in which a normal distribution of the trait is assumed. However, quantitative phenotypes from complex human diseases are often censored, highly skewed, ...