A kinship-based modification of the armitage trend test to address hidden population structure and small differential genotyping errors.

We propose a modification of the well-known Armitage trend test to address the problems associated with hidden population structure and hidden relatedness in genome-wide case-control association studies.The new test adopts beneficial traits from three existing testing strategies: the principal compo...

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Main Authors: Cyril S Rakovski, Daniel O Stram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-06-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2688076?pdf=render

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