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Detecting Multiethnic Rare Variants.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2017
Ouyang Weiwei, Zhu Xiaofeng, Qin Huaizhen
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies have identified many common genetic variants which are associated with certain diseases. The identified common variants, however, explain only a small portion of the heritability of a complex disease phenotype. The missing heritability motivated researchers to test the hypothesis that rare variants influence common diseases. Next-generation sequencing technologies have made the...
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