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Joint effect of unlinked genotypes: application to type 2 diabetes in the EPIC-Potsdam case-cohort study.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Jul 2015
Knüppel Sven, Meidtner Karina, Arregui Maria, Holzhütter Hermann-Georg, Boeing Heiner
Abstract excerpt
Analyzing multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is a promising approach to finding genetic effects beyond single-locus associations. We proposed the use of multilocus stepwise regression (MSR) to screen for allele combinations as a method to model joint effects, and compared the results with the often used genetic risk score (GRS), conventional stepwise selection, and the shrinkage method LASSO. In...
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