Optimizing the power of genome-wide association studies by using publicly available reference samples to expand the control group.

Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have proved extremely successful in identifying novel genetic loci contributing effects to complex human diseases. In doing so, they have highlighted the fact that many potential loci of modest effect remain undetected, partly due to the need for samples consist...

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Main Authors: Zhuang, J, Zondervan, K, Nyberg, F, Harbron, C, Jawaid, A, Cardon, L, Barratt, B, Morris, A
Format: Conference item
Published: 2010