Abbreviations

Abbreviations Explanation
BH Benjamini-Hochberg
CA Cochran-Armitage
CNP Copy Number Polymorphism(s)
ddNTP dideoxyNucleotide TriPhosphate
DNA DeoxyriboNucleic Acid
FDP False Discovery Proportion
FDR False Discovery Rate
FN False Negative
FP False Positive
FWER Family-Wise Error Rate
GAM Generalized Additive Model
GCV General Cross-Validation
GL Group-Lasso
GLM Generalized Linear Model
GLMM Generalized Linear Mixed Model
GWAS Genome-Wide Association Study(ies)
HAC Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering
HCAR Hierarchical Clustering and Averaging Regression
HGAM High-dimensional Generalized Additive Models
HLA Human Leukocyte Antigen
HWE Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
LARS Least Angle Regression
LASSO Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator
LD Linkage Disequilibrium
MCMC Markov Chain Monte Carlo
MLGL Multi-Layer Group Lasso
MSE Mean Squared Error
MWAS Metagenome-Wide Association Study(ies)
OLS Ordinary Least Squares
OR Odds Ratio
OTU Operational Taxonomic Unit(s)
PCA Principal Component Analysis
PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction
P-IRLS Penalized-Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares
RFLP Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism(s)
RNA RiboNucleic Acid
ROC Receiver Operating Characteristic
RR Relative Risk
RSS Residual Sum of Squares
SASA Single Aggregated-SNP analysis
SIComORe Selection of Interaction effects in COmpressed Multiple Omics Representation
SKAT Sequence Kernel Association Test
SMA Single Marker Analysis
SNP Single Nucleotide Polymorphism(s)
SSLP Simple Sequence Length Polymorphism(s)
TN True Negative
TP True Positive
WGA Whole-Genome Association
WTCCC Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium