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High-accuracy imputation for HLA class I and II genes based on high-resolution SNP data of population-specific references.
The pharmacogenomics journal - 1 Dec 2015
Khor S-S, Yang W, Kawashima M, Kamitsuji S, Zheng X, Nishida N, Sawai H, Toyoda H, Miyagawa T, Honda M, Kamatani N, Tokunaga K
Abstract excerpt
Statistical imputation of classical human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles is becoming an indispensable tool for fine-mappings of disease association signals from case-control genome-wide association studies. However, most currently available HLA imputation tools are based on European reference populations and are not suitable for direct application to non-European populations. Among the HLA imputation tools, The...
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