Family-based association test using both common and rare variants and accounting for directions of effects for sequencing data.

Current family-based association tests for sequencing data were mainly developed for identifying rare variants associated with a complex disease. As the disease can be influenced by the joint effects of common and rare variants, common variants with modest effects may not be identified by the method...

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Main Authors: Ren-Hua Chung, Wei-Yun Tsai, Eden R Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4171487?pdf=render