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Assessing the joint effect of population stratification and sample selection in studies of gene-gene (environment) interactions.
BMC genetics - 27 Jan 2012
Cheng K F, Lee J Y
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BACKGROUND: It is well known that the presence of population stratification (PS) may cause the usual test in case-control studies to produce spurious gene-disease associations. However, the impact of the PS and sample selection (SS) is less known. In this paper, we provide a systematic study of the joint effect of PS and SS under a more general risk model containing genetic and environmental factors. We provide...
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