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Control of population stratification by correlation-selected principal components.
Biometrics - 1 Sept 2011
Lee Seunggeun, Wright Fred A, Zou Fei
Abstract excerpt
In genome-wide association studies, population stratification is recognized as producing inflated type I error due to the inflation of test statistics. Principal component-based methods applied to genotypes provide information about population structure, and have been widely used to control for stratification. Here we explore the precise relationship between genotype principal components and inflation of...
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