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Participant identification in genetic association studies: improved methods and practical implications.
International journal of epidemiology - 1 Dec 2011
Masca Nicholas, Burton Paul R, Sheehan Nuala A
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BACKGROUND: In a recent paper by Homer et al. (Resolving individuals contributing trace amounts of DNA to highly complex mixtures using high-density SNP genotyping microarrays. PLoS Genet 2008;4:e1000167), a method for detecting whether a given individual is a contributor to a particular genomic mixture was proposed. This prompted grave concern about the public dissemination of aggregate statistics from...
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