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Design and analysis of multiple diseases genome-wide association studies without controls.
Gene - 15 Nov 2012
Chen Zhongxue, Huang Hanwen, Ng Hon Keung Tony
Abstract excerpt
In genome-wide association studies (GWAS), multiple diseases with shared controls is one of the case-control study designs. If data obtained from these studies are appropriately analyzed, this design can have several advantages such as improving statistical power in detecting associations and reducing the time and cost in the data collection process. In this paper, we propose a study design for GWAS which...
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