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Statistical distributions of test statistics used for quantitative trait association mapping in structured populations.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 12 Nov 2012
Teyssèdre Simon, Elsen Jean-Michel, Ricard Anne
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BACKGROUND: Spurious associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms and phenotypes are a major issue in genome-wide association studies and have led to underestimation of type 1 error rate and overestimation of the number of quantitative trait loci found. Many authors have investigated the influence of population structure on the robustness of methods by simulation. This paper is aimed at developing further...
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