Measuring missing heritability: Inferring the contribution of common variants

Genome-wide association studies (GWASs), also called common variant association studies (CVASs), have uncovered thousands of genetic variants associated with hundreds of diseases. However, the variants that reach statistical significance typically explain only a small fraction of the heritability. O...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Golan, David, Rosset, Saharon, Lander, Eric Steven
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97248