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A framework to decipher the genetic architecture of combinations of complex diseases: applications in cardiovascular medicine.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 18 Nov 2021
Yin Liangying, Chau Carlos Kwan-Long, Lin Yu-Ping, Rao Shitao, Xiang Yong, Sham Pak-Chung, So Hon-Cheong
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MOTIVATION: Currently, most genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are studies of a single disease against controls. However, an individual is often affected by more than one condition. For example, coronary artery disease (CAD) is often comorbid with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Similarly, it is clinically meaningful to study patients with one disease but without a related comorbidity. For example, obese...
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