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A new approach to account for the correlations among single nucleotide polymorphisms in genome: wide association studies.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2011
Chen Zhongxue, Liu Qingzhong
Abstract excerpt
In genetic association studies, such as genome-wide association studies (GWAS), the number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) can be as large as hundreds of thousands. Due to linkage disequilibrium, many SNPs are highly correlated; assuming they are independent is not valid. The commonly used multiple comparison methods, such as Bonferroni correction, are not appropriate and are too conservative when...
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