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Post-GWAS: where next? More samples, more SNPs or more biology?
Heredity - 1 Jan 2014
Marjoram P, Zubair A, Nuzhdin S V
Abstract excerpt
The power of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) rests on several foundations: (i) there is a significant amount of additive genetic variation, (ii) individual causal polymorphisms often have sizable effects and (iii) they segregate at moderate-to-intermediate frequencies, or will be effectively 'tagged' by polymorphisms that do. Each of these assumptions has recently been questioned. (i) Why should genetic...
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