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A resource-efficient tool for mixed model association analysis of large-scale data.
Nature genetics - 1 Dec 2019
Jiang Longda, Zheng Zhili, Qi Ting, Kemper Kathryn E, Wray Naomi R, Visscher Peter M, Yang Jian
Abstract excerpt
The genome-wide association study (GWAS) has been widely used as an experimental design to detect associations between genetic variants and a phenotype. Two major confounding factors, population stratification and relatedness, could potentially lead to inflated GWAS test statistics and hence to spurious associations. Mixed linear model (MLM)-based approaches can be used to account for sample structure. However,...
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