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Case-control association studies in mixed populations: correcting using genomic control.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2004
Shmulewitz Dvora, Zhang Junying, Greenberg David A
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OBJECTIVE: Case-control association studies in mixed populations can result in spurious disease-marker associations if subpopulation disease prevalence and marker frequencies both differ. Genomic control (GC) uses neutral loci to correct for spurious association (due to population stratification), but how well this works remains undetermined. METHODS: We simulated and mixed populations with different disease and...
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