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Comparison of mixed model based approaches for correcting for population substructure with application to extreme phenotype sampling.
BMC genomics - 4 Feb 2022
Onifade Maryam, Roy-Gagnon Marie-Hélène, Parent Marie-Élise, Burkett Kelly M
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BACKGROUND: Mixed models are used to correct for confounding due to population stratification and hidden relatedness in genome-wide association studies. This class of models includes linear mixed models and generalized linear mixed models. Existing mixed model approaches to correct for population substructure have been previously investigated with both continuous and case-control response variables. However, they...
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