Evaluating confounding in rare variant genome wide association studies.

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The theorised risk that confounded rare variant associations will emerge from population based genetic studies has not been investigated empirically. Here, we use 306,991 sequenced exomes from the UK Biobank to demonstrate that recent demography is poorly captured by common and rare variant principal components, and accounting for haplotype sharing does not eliminate false-positive rare variant associations with...

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