The phrase "association methodology" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to research, social sciences, or any field where methods of association or connection are being discussed.
Example: "The study employed an association methodology to analyze the relationships between various social factors and health outcomes."
Alternatives: "relational approach" or "connection method".
In this study, we adopted this strategy by first employing genome-wide association methodology to identify common genetic variants associated with PMI after CABG, followed by pathway-based analyses to uncover biological mechanisms of relevance to PMI.
We sought to identify novel common genetic variants associated with perioperative MI in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting using genome-wide association methodology.
Therefore, changes in the DNA may be difficult to detect using a simple association methodology even though they play a key role in disease etiologies.
The power of rare variant association methodology is also likely to vary according to the technology used to assay genetic variation.
One challenge in applying association methodology is to identify functional variants without analysing every polymorphism in a genomic region, which may be as frequent as 1/1000 base pairs in regions of the genome.
The mechanisms through which c.1810T variant could trigger and/or modify oncogenic events in embryonal NCC are only hypothetical at this time; however, our preliminary data provide an interesting starting point for further studies, possibly using a genome-wide association methodology.
Both linkage-based and genetic association methodologies are amenable to family studies.
Across association methodologies, a total number of 25, 12, 1, 6 COMT polymorphic sites were significantly associated with DNDF, OMD, NDF, and WSC, respectively.
However, this association is methodology sensitive, and different algorithms or genes associate them with other groups such as the Proteobacteria, the Cyanobacteria, the Thermotogales, or within the Firmicutes (see for example [ 12- 14]).
Furthermore, association testing methodology including those used here rely on assumptions that may not hold, particularly with regard to noise.
These results give confidence in the association analysis methodology followed, though experimental validation is needed to determine to what extent the associated genes regulate estrous behavior.
