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Haplotype variation and genotype imputation in African populations.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Dec 2011
Huang Lucy, Jakobsson Mattias, Pemberton Trevor J, Ibrahim Muntaser, Nyambo Thomas, Omar Sabah, Pritchard Jonathan K, Tishkoff Sarah A, Rosenberg Noah A
Abstract excerpt
Sub-Saharan Africa has been identified as the part of the world with the greatest human genetic diversity. This high level of diversity causes difficulties for genome-wide association (GWA) studies in African populations-for example, by reducing the accuracy of genotype imputation in African populations compared to non-African populations. Here, we investigate haplotype variation and imputation in Africa, using...
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