On rare variants in principal component analysis of population stratification

Abstract Background Population stratification is a known confounder of genome-wide association studies, as it can lead to false positive results. Principal component analysis (PCA) method is widely applied in the analysis of population structure with common variants. However, it is still unclear abo...

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Main Authors: Shengqing Ma, Gang Shi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-03-01
Series:BMC Genetics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12863-020-0833-x

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