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Genetic association analysis of complex diseases incorporating intermediate phenotype information.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Li Yafang, Huang Jian, Amos Christopher I
Abstract excerpt
Genetic researchers often collect disease related quantitative traits in addition to disease status because they are interested in understanding the pathophysiology of disease processes. In genome-wide association (GWA) studies, these quantitative phenotypes may be relevant to disease development and serve as intermediate phenotypes or they could be behavioral or other risk factors that predict disease risk....
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