A nonparametric alternative to the Cochran-Armitage trend test in genetic case-control association studies: The Jonckheere-Terpstra trend test

• Sydney E. Manning,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacotherapy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1715-7891

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• Hung-Chih Ku,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, United States of America

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• Douglas F. Dluzen,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, MD, United States of America

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• Chao Xing ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhengyang.zhou@unthsc.edu (ZZ); chao.xing@utsouthwestern.edu (CX)

  Affiliation McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development and Department of Bioinformatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1838-0502

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• Zhengyang Zhou

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhengyang.zhou@unthsc.edu (ZZ); chao.xing@utsouthwestern.edu (CX)

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8039-418X

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