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Poor statistical power in population-based association study of gene interaction.
BMC medical genomics - 27 Apr 2024
Ma Jiarui, Li Jian, Chen Yuqi, Yang Zhen, He Yungang
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BACKGROUND: Statistical epistasis, or "gene-gene interaction" in genetic association studies, means the nonadditive effects between the polymorphic sites on two different genes affecting the same phenotype. In the genetic association analysis of complex traits, nevertheless, the researchers haven't found enough clues of statistical epistasis so far. METHODS: We developed a statistical model where the statistical...
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