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Gene set analysis of SNP data: benefits, challenges, and future directions.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Aug 2011
Fridley Brooke L, Biernacka Joanna M
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The last decade of human genetic research witnessed the completion of hundreds of genome-wide association studies (GWASs). However, the genetic variants discovered through these efforts account for only a small proportion of the heritability of complex traits. One explanation for the missing heritability is that the common analysis approach, assessing the effect of each single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)...
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