Article
Joint Analysis of Multiple Traits Using "Optimal" Maximum Heritability Test.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Wang Zhenchuan, Sha Qiuying, Zhang Shuanglin
Abstract excerpt
The joint analysis of multiple traits has recently become popular since it can increase statistical power to detect genetic variants and there is increasing evidence showing that pleiotropy is a widespread phenomenon in complex diseases. Currently, most of existing methods use all of the traits for testing the association between multiple traits and a single variant. However, those methods for association studies...
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