Article
Family-based genome-wide association studies.
Pharmacogenomics - 1 Feb 2009
Benyamin Beben, Visscher Peter M, McRae Allan F
Abstract excerpt
In the last 2 years, the effort to identify genes affecting common diseases and complex traits has been accelerated through the use of genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The availability of existing large collections of linkage data paved the way for the use of family-based GWAS. Although most published GWAS used population-based designs, family-based designs have played an important role, particularly in...
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