Association mapping has become a widely applied genomic approach to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) and dissect the genetic architecture of complex traits. However, approaches to assess the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper generalizes previous work of Feigl and Zelen, who assumed survival time of a chronic disease (e.g. cancer) patient to follow an ...

Blood pressure (BP) is one of the most important contributing factors to pulse wave velocity (PWV), a classic measure of arterial stiffness. Although there have been many non-invasive studies to show ...

A method of generating random variables with the gamma or beta distribution having non-integral shape parameters from uniform random variables is given. Oxford University Press is a department of the ...