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Detecting sample misidentifications in genetic association studies.
Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology - 1 Jan 2012
Ekstrøm Claus T, Feenstra Bjarke
Abstract excerpt
Genetic association studies require that the genotype data from a given person can be correctly linked to the phenotype data from the same person. However, sample misidentification errors sometimes happen, whereby the link becomes invalid for some of the subjects in a study. This can have substantial consequences in terms of power to detect truly associated variants. In family-based studies, Mendelian...
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