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Genotype imputation in case-only studies of gene-environment interaction: validity and power.
Human genetics - 1 Aug 2021
Aleknonytė-Resch Milda, Szymczak Silke, Freitag-Wolf Sandra, Dempfle Astrid, Krawczak Michael
Abstract excerpt
Case-only (CO) studies are a powerful means to uncover gene-environment (G × E) interactions for complex human diseases. Moreover, such studies may in principle also draw upon genotype imputation to increase statistical power even further. However, genotype imputation usually employs healthy controls such as the Haplotype Reference Consortium (HRC) data as an imputation base, which may systematically perturb CO...
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