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Unconventional height functions in simultaneous Diophantine approximation (open access)

Unconventional height functions in simultaneous Diophantine approximation

This article discusses three examples of nonstandard height functions, computing their exponents of irrationality as well as giving more precise results.
Date: October 3, 2016
Creator: Fishman, Lior & Simmons, David
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Testing rare variants for hypertension using family-based tests with different weighting schemes (open access)

Testing rare variants for hypertension using family-based tests with different weighting schemes

This paper proposes 4 weighting schemes for the family-based rare variants test (FBAT-v) to test for the effects of both rare and common variants across the genome.
Date: October 18, 2016
Creator: Wang, Xuexia; Zhao, Xingwang & Zhou, Jin
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
A novel statistical method for rare-variant association studies in general pedigrees (open access)

A novel statistical method for rare-variant association studies in general pedigrees

In this paper, the authors discuss a novel statistical method for rare-variant association studies in general pedigrees for quantitative traits. This method uses a retrospective view that treats the traits as fixed and the genotypes as random, which accounts for complex and undefined ascertainment of families.
Date: October 18, 2016
Creator: Zhu, Huanhuan; Wang, Zhenchuan; Wang, Xuexia & Sha, Qiuying
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library