TY - BOOK AU - Majumdar,Arunabha TI - Some statistical issues pertaining to genome-wide association studies U1 - 000SB:572.8 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Kolkata PB - Indian Statistical Institute KW - Statistical Genetics KW - Molecular Biology. KW - Genetics KW - Thesis N1 - "This thesis was accepted for the Ph.D. degree by the Indian Statistical Institute, August, 2013." Thesis supervisor: Dr. Saurabh Ghosh; Includes bibliographical references; 1. Introduction and overview-- 2. A novel Bayesian semi-parametric algorithm for inferring population structure and adjusting for case-control association tests-- 3. A multivariate normal block versus a principal components approach: competing strategies for multiple testing in genome-wide case-control association framework-- 4. Integrating multiple phenotypes for detecting population based association using binomial regression-- 5. Combining associated single nucleotide polymorphisms for estimation genetic risks. Bibliography ER -