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Genetic association models are robust to common population kinship estimation biases.
Genetics - 4 May 2023
Hou Zhuoran, Ochoa Alejandro
Abstract excerpt
Common genetic association models for structured populations, including principal component analysis (PCA) and linear mixed-effects models (LMMs), model the correlation structure between individuals using population kinship matrices, also known as genetic relatedness matrices. However, the most common kinship estimators can have severe biases that were only recently determined. Here we characterize the effect of...
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