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Prioritizing GWAS results: A review of statistical methods and recommendations for their application.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2010
Cantor Rita M, Lange Kenneth, Sinsheimer Janet S
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have rapidly become a standard method for disease gene discovery. A substantial number of recent GWAS indicate that for most disorders, only a few common variants are implicated and the associated SNPs explain only a small fraction of the genetic risk. This review is written from the viewpoint that findings from the GWAS provide preliminary genetic information that is...
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