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FLAGS: A Flexible and Adaptive Association Test for Gene Sets Using Summary Statistics.
Genetics - 1 Mar 2016
Huang Jianfei, Wang Kai, Wei Peng, Liu Xiangtao, Liu Xiaoming, Tan Kai, Boerwinkle Eric, Potash James B, Han Shizhong
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been widely used for identifying common variants associated with complex diseases. Despite remarkable success in uncovering many risk variants and providing novel insights into disease biology, genetic variants identified to date fail to explain the vast majority of the heritability for most complex diseases. One explanation is that there are still a large number of...
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