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A New Method for Detecting Associations with Rare Copy-Number Variants.
PLoS genetics - 1 Oct 2015
Tzeng Jung-Ying, Magnusson Patrik K E, Sullivan Patrick F, Szatkiewicz Jin P
Abstract excerpt
Copy number variants (CNVs) play an important role in the etiology of many diseases such as cancers and psychiatric disorders. Due to a modest marginal effect size or the rarity of the CNVs, collapsing rare CNVs together and collectively evaluating their effect serves as a key approach to evaluating the collective effect of rare CNVs on disease risk. While a plethora of powerful collapsing methods are available...
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