Article
Improving the detection of pathways in genome-wide association studies by combined effects of SNPs from Linkage Disequilibrium blocks.
Scientific reports - 14 Jun 2017
Zhao Huiying, Nyholt Dale R, Yang Yuanhao, Wang Jihua, Yang Yuedong
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified single variants associated with diseases. To increase the power of GWAS, gene-based and pathway-based tests are commonly employed to detect more risk factors. However, the gene- and pathway-based association tests may be biased towards genes or pathways containing a large number of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with small P-values caused...
Topics
- Breast Neoplasms
- Computational Biology
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Humans
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Schizophrenia
