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Using biological knowledge to discover higher order interactions in genetic association studies.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Dec 2010
Chen Gary K, Thomas Duncan C
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The recent successes of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed that many of the replicated findings have explained only a small fraction of the heritability of common diseases. One hypothesis that investigators have suggested is that higher order interactions between SNPs or SNPs and environmental risk factors may account for some of this missing heritability. Searching for these interactions poses...
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