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Power loss due to testing association between covariate-adjusted traits and genetic variants.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Sept 2020
Yajnik Pranav, Boehnke Michael
Abstract excerpt
Multiple linear regression is commonly used to test for association between genetic variants and continuous traits and estimate genetic effect sizes. Confounding variables are controlled for by including them as additional covariates. An alternative technique that is increasingly used is to regress out covariates from the raw trait and then perform regression analysis with only the genetic variants included as...
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