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Rare variants create synthetic genome-wide associations.
PLoS biology - 26 Jan 2010
Dickson Samuel P, Wang Kai, Krantz Ian, Hakonarson Hakon, Goldstein David B
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have now identified at least 2,000 common variants that appear associated with common diseases or related traits (http://www.genome.gov/gwastudies), hundreds of which have been convincingly replicated. It is generally thought that the associated markers reflect the effect of a nearby common (minor allele frequency >0.05) causal site, which is associated with the marker,...
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