Problems with Genome-Wide Association Studies

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In their News Focus article “Closing the net on common disease genes” (11 May, p. [820][1]), J. Couzin and J. Kaiser present an optimistic appraisal of genome-wide association (GWA) studies. Within the past year, Science has published results from seven GWA studies for obesity, cardiovascular

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