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Evaluating ancestry adjustment in multi-ancestry epigenome-wide analysis.
Epigenetics - 31 Dec 2026
Liu Yueming, Kuang Alan, Hivert Marie-France, Lowe William L, Josefson Jami L, Scholtens Denise M
Abstract excerpt
Proper adjustment for population substructure is essential in epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS), particularly in cohorts with diverse ancestries. EPISTRUCTURE offers a genotype-free approach to ancestry inference, originally developed using a European reference population from the Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg (KORA) study. However, its effectiveness in genetically diverse,...
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