A powerful method for pleiotropic analysis under composite null hypothesis identifies novel shared loci between Type 2 Diabetes and Prostate Cancer.
There is increasing evidence that pleiotropy, the association of multiple traits with the same genetic variants/loci, is a very common phenomenon. Cross-phenotype association tests are often used to jointly analyze multiple traits from a genome-wide association study (GWAS). The underlying methods,...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-12-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009218 |