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Rank-based genome-wide analysis reveals the association of ryanodine receptor-2 gene variants with childhood asthma among human populations.
Human genomics - 5 Jul 2013
Ding Lili, Abebe Tilahun, Beyene Joseph, Wilke Russell A, Goldberg Arnon, Woo Jessica G, Martin Lisa J, Rothenberg Marc E, Rao Marepalli, Hershey Gurjit K Khurana, Chakraborty Ranajit, Mersha Tesfaye B
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BACKGROUND: The standard approach to determine unique or shared genetic factors across populations is to identify risk alleles in one population and investigate replication in others. However, since populations differ in DNA sequence information, allele frequencies, effect sizes, and linkage dise...
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