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Concordance between direct and imputed APOE genotypes using 1000 Genomes data.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD - 1 Jan 2014
Oldmeadow Christopher, Holliday Elizabeth G, McEvoy Mark, Scott Rodney, Kwok John B J, Mather Karen, Sachdev Perminder, Schofield Peter, Attia John
Abstract excerpt
There are a growing number of large cohorts of older persons with genome-wide genotyping data available, but APOE is not included in any of the common microarray platforms. We compared directly measured APOE genotypes with those imputed using microarray data and the "1000 Genomes" dataset in a sample of 320 Caucasians. We find 90% agreement for ε2/ε3/ε4 genotypes and 93% agreement for predicting ε4 status,...
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