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Re-assessment of multiple testing strategies for more efficient genome-wide association studies.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Jul 2018
Otani Takahiro, Noma Hisashi, Nishino Jo, Matsui Shigeyuki
Abstract excerpt
Although enormous costs have been dedicated to discovering relevant disease-related genetic variants, especially in genome-wide association studies (GWASs), only a small fraction of estimated heritability can be explained by these results. This is the so-called missing heritability problem. The conventional use of overly conservative multiple testing strategies based on controlling the familywise error rate...
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