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Integrative pathway-based approach for genome-wide association studies: identification of new pathways for rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Büchel Finja, Mittag Florian, Wrzodek Clemens, Zell Andreas, Gasser Thomas, Sharma Manu
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) led to the identification of numerous novel loci for a number of complex diseases. Pathway-based approaches using genotypic data provide tangible leads which cannot be identified by single marker approaches as implemented in GWAS. The available pathway analysis approaches mainly differ in the employed databases and in the applied statistics for determining the significance...
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