On the synthesis and interpretation of consistent but weak gene-disease associations in the era of genome-wide association studies

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Emerging technologies are allowing researchers to study hundreds of thousands of genetic variants simultaneously as risk factors for common complex diseases. Both theoretical considerations and empirical evidence suggest that specific genetic variants causally associated with common diseases will have small effects (risk ratios mostly <2.0). However, the combination of even a few small effects (e.g. effects of...

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