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Rare-variant association tests in longitudinal studies, with an application to the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Dec 2017
He Zihuai, Lee Seunggeun, Zhang Min, Smith Jennifer A, Guo Xiuqing, Palmas Walter, Kardia Sharon L R, Ionita-Laza Iuliana, Mukherjee Bhramar
Abstract excerpt
Over the past few years, an increasing number of studies have identified rare variants that contribute to trait heritability. Due to the extreme rarity of some individual variants, gene-based association tests have been proposed to aggregate the genetic variants within a gene, pathway, or specific genomic region as opposed to a one-at-a-time single variant analysis. In addition, in longitudinal studies,...
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