Identifying lineage effects when controlling for population structure improves power in bacterial association studies

Bacteria pose unique challenges for genome-wide association studies because of strong structuring into distinct strains and substantial linkage disequilibrium across the genome1,2. Although methods developed for human studies can correct for strain structure3,4, this risks considerable loss-of-power...

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Main Authors: Earle, S, Wu, C, Charlesworth, J, Stoesser, N, Gordon, N, Walker, T, Spencer, C, Iqbal, Z, Clifton, D, Hopkins, K, Woodford, N, Smith, E, Ismail, N, Llewelyn, M, Peto, T, Crook, D, McVean, G, Walker, A, Wilson, D
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Nature Research 2016