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Joint analysis is more efficient than replication-based analysis for two-stage genome-wide association studies.
Nature genetics - 1 Feb 2006
Skol Andrew D, Scott Laura J, Abecasis Gonçalo R, Boehnke Michael
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association is a promising approach to identify common genetic variants that predispose to human disease. Because of the high cost of genotyping hundreds of thousands of markers on thousands of subjects, genome-wide association studies often follow a staged design in which a proportion (pi(samples)) of the available samples are genotyped on a large number of markers in stage 1, and a proportion...
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