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Accounting for eXentricities: analysis of the X chromosome in GWAS reveals X-linked genes implicated in autoimmune diseases.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Chang Diana, Gao Feng, Slavney Andrea, Ma Li, Waldman Yedael Y, Sams Aaron J, Billing-Ross Paul, Madar Aviv, Spritz Richard, Keinan Alon
Abstract excerpt
Many complex human diseases are highly sexually dimorphic, suggesting a potential contribution of the X chromosome to disease risk. However, the X chromosome has been neglected or incorrectly analyzed in most genome-wide association studies (GWAS). We present tailored analytical methods and software that facilitate X-wide association studies (XWAS), which we further applied to reanalyze data from 16 GWAS of...
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