Article
FlexLMM: a Nextflow linear mixed model framework for GWAS.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 26 Dec 2024
Pierotti Saul, Fitzgerald Tomas, Birney Ewan
Abstract excerpt
SUMMARY: Linear mixed models (LMMs) are a commonly used statistical approach in genome-wide association studies when population structure is present. However, naive permutations of the phenotype to empirically estimate the null distribution of a statistic of interest are not appropriate in the presence of population structure or covariates. This is because the samples are not exchangeable with each other under...
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- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Linear Models
- Software
- Humans
- Animals
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Phenotype
