Case-control association tests correcting for population stratification.

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In case-control association studies unobserved population stratification may act as a confounder, leading to an increased number of false positive results. Methods accounting for population structure by using additional genetic markers broadly follow one of two concepts: Genomic Control (GC) and Structured Association (SA). While extending existing methods of Structured Association we show that it is necessary to...

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