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Comprehensive approach to analyzing rare genetic variants.
PloS one - 3 Nov 2010
Hoffmann Thomas J, Marini Nicholas J, Witte John S
Abstract excerpt
Recent findings suggest that rare variants play an important role in both monogenic and common diseases. Due to their rarity, however, it remains unclear how to appropriately analyze the association between such variants and disease. A common approach entails combining rare variants together based on a priori information and analyzing them as a single group. Here one must make some assumptions about what to...
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