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The hazards of genotype imputation when mapping disease susceptibility variants.
Genome biology - 3 Jan 2024
Lau Winston, Ali Aminah, Maude Hannah, Andrew Toby, Swallow Dallas M, Maniatis Nikolas
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The cost-free increase in statistical power of using imputation to infer missing genotypes is undoubtedly appealing, but is it hazard-free? This case study of three type-2 diabetes (T2D) loci demonstrates that it is not; it sheds light on why this is so and raises concerns as to the shortcomings of imputation at disease loci, where haplotypes differ between cases and reference panel. RESULTS:...
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