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Pathway analysis of seven common diseases assessed by genome-wide association.
Genomics - 1 Nov 2008
Torkamani Ali, Topol Eric J, Schork Nicholas J
Abstract excerpt
Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified DNA sequence variations that exhibit unequivocal statistical associations with many common chronic diseases. However, the vast majority of these studies identified variations that explain only a very small fraction of disease burden in the population at large, suggesting that other factors, such as multiple rare or low-penetrance variations and...
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