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Comparison of methods to account for relatedness in genome-wide association studies with family-based data.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jul 2014
Eu-Ahsunthornwattana Jakris, Miller E Nancy, Fakiola Michaela, Jeronimo Selma M B, Blackwell Jenefer M, Cordell Heather J
Abstract excerpt
Approaches based on linear mixed models (LMMs) have recently gained popularity for modelling population substructure and relatedness in genome-wide association studies. In the last few years, a bewildering variety of different LMM methods/software packages have been developed, but it is not always clear how (or indeed whether) any newly-proposed method differs from previously-proposed implementations. Here we...
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