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Discovering weaker genetic associations guided by known associations.
BMC medical genomics - 24 Feb 2020
Wang Haohan, Vanyukov Michael M, Xing Eric P, Wu Wei
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BACKGROUND: The current understanding of the genetic basis of complex human diseases is that they are caused and affected by many common and rare genetic variants. A considerable number of the disease-associated variants have been identified by Genome Wide Association Studies, however, they can explain only a small proportion of heritability. One of the possible reasons for the missing heritability is that many...
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