Improving power in contrasting linkage-disequilibrium patterns between cases and controls.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on March 28, 2007

Authors

Tao Wang1, Xiaofeng Zhu, Robert C Elston

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.

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