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A hybrid likelihood model for sequence-based disease association studies.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jan 2013
Chen Yun-Ching, Carter Hannah, Parla Jennifer, Kramer Melissa, Goes Fernando S, Pirooznia Mehdi, Zandi Peter P, McCombie W Richard, Potash James B, Karchin Rachel
Abstract excerpt
In the past few years, case-control studies of common diseases have shifted their focus from single genes to whole exomes. New sequencing technologies now routinely detect hundreds of thousands of sequence variants in a single study, many of which are rare or even novel. The limitation of classical single-marker association analysis for rare variants has been a challenge in such studies. A new generation of...
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