Article
Genotyping and inflated type I error rate in genome-wide association case/control studies.
BMC bioinformatics - 23 Feb 2009
Sampson Joshua N, Zhao Hongyu
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: One common goal of a case/control genome wide association study (GWAS) is to find SNPs associated with a disease. Traditionally, the first step in such studies is to assign a genotype to each SNP in each subject, based on a statistic summarizing fluorescence measurements. When the distributions of the summary statistics are not well separated by genotype, the act of genotype assignment can lead to...
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