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A general approach to testing for pleiotropy with rare and common variants.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Feb 2017
Lutz Sharon M, Fingerlin Tasha E, Hokanson John E, Lange Christoph
Abstract excerpt
Through genome-wide association studies, numerous genes have been shown to be associated with multiple phenotypes. To determine the overlap of genetic susceptibility of correlated phenotypes, one can apply multivariate regression or dimension reduction techniques, such as principal components analysis, and test for the association with the principal components of the phenotypes rather than the individual...
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