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Construction of a population-specific HLA imputation reference panel and its application to Graves' disease risk in Japanese.
Nature genetics - 1 Jul 2015
Okada Yukinori, Momozawa Yukihide, Ashikawa Kyota, Kanai Masahiro, Matsuda Koichi, Kamatani Yoichiro, Takahashi Atsushi, Kubo Michiaki
Abstract excerpt
To fine map association signals of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) variants in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region, we constructed a Japanese population-specific reference panel (n = 908). We conducted trans-ancestry comparisons of linkage disequilibrium (LD) and haplotype structure for HLA variants using an entropy-based LD measurement, ɛ, and a visualization tool to capture high-dimensional...
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