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The effects of human population structure on large genetic association studies.
Nature genetics - 1 May 2004
Marchini Jonathan, Cardon Lon R, Phillips Michael S, Donnelly Peter
Abstract excerpt
Large-scale association studies hold substantial promise for unraveling the genetic basis of common human diseases. A well-known problem with such studies is the presence of undetected population structure, which can lead to both false positive results and failures to detect genuine associations....
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