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Statistical Methods for Testing Genetic Pleiotropy.
Genetics - 1 Oct 2016
Schaid Daniel J, Tong Xingwei, Larrabee Beth, Kennedy Richard B, Poland Gregory A, Sinnwell Jason P
Abstract excerpt
Genetic pleiotropy is when a single gene influences more than one trait. Detecting pleiotropy and understanding its causes can improve the biological understanding of a gene in multiple ways, yet current multivariate methods to evaluate pleiotropy test the null hypothesis that none of the traits are associated with a variant; departures from the null could be driven by just one associated trait. A formal test of...
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