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A principal components-based clustering method to identify variants associated with complex traits.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2011
Black Mary Helen, Watanabe Richard M
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BACKGROUND: Multivariate methods ranging from joint SNP to principal components analysis (PCA) have been developed for testing multiple markers in a region for association with disease and disease-related traits. However, these methods suffer from low power and/or the inability to identify the subset of markers contributing to evidence for association under various scenarios. METHODS: We introduce orthoblique...
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