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A powerful score-based test statistic for detecting gene-gene co-association.
BMC genetics - 29 Jan 2016
Xu Jing, Yuan Zhongshang, Ji Jiadong, Zhang Xiaoshuai, Li Hongkai, Wu Xuesen, Xue Fuzhong, Liu Yanxun
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BACKGROUND: The genetic variants identified by Genome-wide association study (GWAS) can only account for a small proportion of the total heritability for complex disease. The existence of gene-gene joint effects which contains the main effects and their co-association is one of the possible explanations for the "missing heritability" problems. Gene-gene co-association refers to the extent to which the joint...
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