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Pathway-based analysis of primary biliary cirrhosis genome-wide association studies.
Genes and immunity - 1 Apr 2013
Kar S P, Seldin M F, Chen W, Lu E, Hirschfield G M, Invernizzi P, Heathcote J, Cusi D, Gershwin M E, Siminovitch K A, Amos C I
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified several loci associated with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) risk. Pathway analysis complements conventional GWAS analysis. We applied the recently developed linear combination test for pathways to datasets drawn from independent PBC GWAS in Italian and Canadian subjects. Of the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes and BioCarta pathways...
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