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An Effective Method to Identify Heritable Components from Multivariate Phenotypes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Sun Jiangwen, Kranzler Henry R, Bi Jinbo
Abstract excerpt
Multivariate phenotypes may be characterized collectively by a variety of low level traits, such as in the diagnosis of a disease that relies on multiple disease indicators. Such multivariate phenotypes are often used in genetic association studies. If highly heritable components of a multivariate phenotype can be identified, it can maximize the likelihood of finding genetic associations. Existing methods for...
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