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Failure to replicate a genetic association may provide important clues about genetic architecture.
PloS one - 2 Jun 2009
Greene Casey S, Penrod Nadia M, Williams Scott M, Moore Jason H
Abstract excerpt
Replication has become the gold standard for assessing statistical results from genome-wide association studies. Unfortunately this replication requirement may cause real genetic effects to be missed. A real result can fail to replicate for numerous reasons including inadequate sample size or variability in phenotype definitions across independent samples. In genome-wide association studies the allele frequencies...
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