The empirical power of rare variant association methods: results from sanger sequencing in 1,998 individuals.

The role of rare genetic variation in the etiology of complex disease remains unclear. However, the development of next-generation sequencing technologies offers the experimental opportunity to address this question. Several novel statistical methodologies have been recently proposed to assess the c...

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Main Authors: Martin Ladouceur, Zari Dastani, Yurii S Aulchenko, Celia M T Greenwood, J Brent Richards
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-02-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3271058?pdf=render