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Biobanks and the importance of detailed phenotyping: a case study--the European Glaucoma Society GlaucoGENE project.
The British journal of ophthalmology - 1 May 2009
Founti P, Topouzis F, van Koolwijk L, Traverso C E, Pfeiffer N, Viswanathan A C
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BACKGROUND: Dissecting complex diseases has become an attainable goal through large-scale collaborative projects under the term "biobanks." However, large sample size alone is no guarantee of a reliable genetic association study, and the genetic epidemiology of complex diseases still has many challenges to face. Among these, issues such as genotyping errors and population stratification have been previously...
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