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Magnitude of stratification in human populations and impacts on genome wide association studies.
PloS one - 13 Jan 2010
Hao Ke, Chudin Eugene, Greenawalt Danielle, Schadt Eric E
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) may be biased by population stratification (PS). We conducted empirical quantification of the magnitude of PS among human populations and its impact on GWAS. Liver tissues were collected from 979, 59 and 49 Caucasian Americans (CA), African Americans (AA) and Hispanic Americans (HA), respectively, and genotyped using Illumina650Y (Ilmn650Y) arrays. RNA was also isolated and...
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