Meta-analysis is a commonly used approach to increase the sample size for genome-wide association searches when individual studies are otherwise underpowered. Here, we present a meta-analysis ...

In most GWAS, the participants are assumed to be unrelated and to come from a single population. However, even in carefully designed studies, some degrees of relatedness and population stratification ...

Part I: The analysis of variance in the case of models with fixed effects and independent observations of equal variance -- Point estimation -- Construction of confidence ellipsoids and tests in the ...