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Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies.
Cold Spring Harbor protocols - 1 Jun 2010
de Bakker Paul I W, Neale Benjamin M, Daly Mark J
Abstract excerpt
Individual genome-wide association studies have only limited power to find novel loci underlying complex traits and common diseases. With relatively modest sample and effect sizes, a true association between genotype and phenotype may never meet genome-wide statistical significance (P < 5 x 10(-8)) in a single study. Through meta-analysis, novel susceptibility loci can be discovered by effectively summing the...
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