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Statistical power and utility of meta-analysis methods for cross-phenotype genome-wide association studies.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2018
Zhu Zhaozhong, Anttila Verneri, Smoller Jordan W, Lee Phil H
Abstract excerpt
Advances in recent genome wide association studies (GWAS) suggest that pleiotropic effects on human complex traits are widespread. A number of classic and recent meta-analysis methods have been used to identify genetic loci with pleiotropic effects, but the overall performance of these methods is not well understood. In this work, we use extensive simulations and case studies of GWAS datasets to investigate the...
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