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A bias-reducing pathway enrichment analysis of genome-wide association data confirmed association of the MHC region with schizophrenia.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Feb 2012
Jia Peilin, Wang Lily, Fanous Ayman H, Chen Xiangning, Kendler Kenneth S, Zhao Zhongming
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BACKGROUND: After the recent successes of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), one key challenge is to identify genetic variants that might have a significant joint effect on complex diseases but have failed to be identified individually due to weak to moderate marginal effect. One popular and effective approach is gene set based analysis, which investigates the joint effect of multiple functionally related...
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