Efficient utilization of rare variants for detection of disease-related genomic regions.

When testing association between rare variants and diseases, an efficient analytical approach involves considering a set of variants in a genomic region as the unit of analysis. One factor complicating this approach is that the vast majority of rare variants in practical applications are believed to...

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Main Authors: Lei Zhang, Yu-Fang Pei, Jian Li, Christopher J Papasian, Hong-Wen Deng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-12-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3000820?pdf=render