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GWAR: robust analysis and meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 15 May 2017
Dimou Niki L, Tsirigos Konstantinos D, Elofsson Arne, Bagos Pantelis G
Abstract excerpt
MOTIVATION: In the context of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), there is a variety of statistical techniques in order to conduct the analysis, but, in most cases, the underlying genetic model is usually unknown. Under these circumstances, the classical Cochran-Armitage trend test (CATT) is suboptimal. Robust procedures that maximize the power and preserve the nominal type I error rate are preferable....
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