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The distribution of common-variant effect sizes.
Nature genetics - 1 Aug 2021
O'Connor Luke J
Abstract excerpt
The genetic effect-size distribution of a disease describes the number of risk variants, the range of their effect sizes and sample sizes that will be required to discover them. Accurate estimation has been a challenge. Here I propose Fourier Mixture Regression (FMR), validating that it accurately estimates real and simulated effect-size distributions. Applied to summary statistics for ten diseases (average...
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