Article
Structure-informed clustering for population stratification in association studies.
BMC bioinformatics - 31 Oct 2023
Bose Aritra, Burch Myson, Chowdhury Agniva, Paschou Peristera, Drineas Petros
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Identifying variants associated with complex traits is a challenging task in genetic association studies due to linkage disequilibrium (LD) between genetic variants and population stratification, unrelated to the disease risk. Existing methods of population structure correction use principal component analysis or linear mixed models with a random effect when modeling associations between a trait of...
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