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Defining the power limits of genome-wide association scan meta-analyses.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Dec 2011
Chapman Kay, Ferreira Teresa, Morris Andrew, Asimit Jennifer, Zeggini Eleftheria
Abstract excerpt
Large-scale meta-analyses of genome-wide association scans (GWAS) have been successful in discovering common risk variants with modest and small effects. The detection of lower frequency signals will undoubtedly require concerted efforts of at least similar scale. We investigate the sample size-dictated power limits of GWAS meta-analyses, in the presence and absence of modest levels of heterogeneity and across a...
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