Overview
- Correlates with modern genetics in medicine
- Provides a current working knowledge of genetic epidemiology
- Describes statistical methods for quantitative assessment of genetic influences on diseases
- Focuses on research study designs for discovering disease susceptibility genes
- Introduces the use of the popular open-sourced computer programming language, R, for needed quantitative assessment in epidemiologic analysis
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1082)
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About this book
The book illustrates how biostatistics may numerically summarize human genetic epidemiology using R, and may be used successfully to solve
problems in quantitative Genetic Epidemiology
Biostatistics for Human Genetic Epidemiology provides
statistical methodologies and R recipes for human genetic
epidemiologic problems. It begins by introducing all the
necessary probabilistic and statistical foundations, before
moving on to topics related human genetic epidemiology,with R codes illustrations for various examples.
This clear and concise book covers human genetic
epidemiology, using R in data analysis, including multivariate
data analysis. It examines probabilistic and statistical theories
for modeling human genetic epidemiology – leading the readers
through an effective epidemiologic model, from simple toadvanced levels. Classical mathematical, probabilistic, and
statistical theory are thoroughly discussed and presented. This
book also presents R as a calculator and using R in data analysis.Additionally, it covers Advanced Human Genetic Data
Concepts, the Study of Human Genetic Variation, ManhattanPlots, as well as the Procedures for Multiple Comparison.
Numerous Worked Examples are provided for illustrations of
concepts and real-life applications.
Biostatistics for Human Genetic Epidemiology is an ideal
reference for professionals and students in Medicine
(particularly in Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Medical Practices), as well as in Genetics, Epidemiology, andBiostatistics.
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Book Title: Biostatistics for Human Genetic Epidemiology
Authors: Bertram K. C. Chan
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93791-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93790-8Published: 03 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06724-3Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93791-5Published: 24 October 2018
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 355
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Genetics, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Molecular Medicine