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Cross-Phenotype Association Analysis Using Summary Statistics from GWAS.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2017
Li Xiaoyin, Zhu Xiaofeng
Abstract excerpt
For over a decade, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been a major tool for detecting genetic variants underlying complex traits. Recent studies have demonstrated that the same variant or gene can be associated with multiple traits, and such associations are termed cross-phenotype (CP) associations. CP association analysis can improve statistical power by searching for variants that contribute to...
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