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Considerations for subgroups and phenocopies in complex disease genetics.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Ramanujam Ryan, Ramanujam S, Hillert Jan
Abstract excerpt
The number of identified genetic variants associated to complex disease cannot fully explain heritability. This may be partially due to more complicated patterns of predisposition than previously suspected. Diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) may consist of multiple disease causing mechanisms, each comprised of several elements. We describe how the effect of subgroups can be calculated using the standard...
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