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Using family-based imputation in genome-wide association studies with large complex pedigrees: the Framingham Heart Study.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Chen Ming-Huei, Huang Jie, Chen Wei-Min, Larson Martin G, Fox Caroline S, Vasan Ramachandran S, Seshadri Sudha, O'Donnell Christopher J, Yang Qiong
Abstract excerpt
Imputation has been widely used in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to infer genotypes of un-genotyped variants based on the linkage disequilibrium in external reference panels such as the HapMap and 1000 Genomes. However, imputation has only rarely been performed based on family relationships to infer genotypes of un-genotyped individuals. Using 8998 Framingham Heart Study (FHS) participants genotyped with...
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