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Quantification of population structure using correlated SNPs by shrinkage principal components.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2010
Zou Fei, Lee Seunggeun, Knowles Michael R, Wright Fred A
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: Association studies using unrelated individuals have become the most popular design for mapping complex traits. One of the major challenges of association mapping is avoiding spurious association due to population stratification. Principal component analysis (PCA) on genome-wide marker genotypes is one of the most popular population stratification control methods. It implicitly assumes that the...
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