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Association studies for next-generation sequencing.
Genome research - 1 Jul 2011
Luo Li, Boerwinkle Eric, Xiong Momiao
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become the primary approach for identifying genes with common variants influencing complex diseases. Despite considerable progress, the common variations identified by GWAS account for only a small fraction of disease heritability and are unlikely to explain the majority of phenotypic variations of common diseases. A potential source of the missing heritability is the...
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