A New Method for Detecting Associations with Rare Copy-Number Variants.

Copy number variants (CNVs) play an important role in the etiology of many diseases such as cancers and psychiatric disorders. Due to a modest marginal effect size or the rarity of the CNVs, collapsing rare CNVs together and collectively evaluating their effect serves as a key approach to evaluating...

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Main Authors: Jung-Ying Tzeng, Patrik K E Magnusson, Patrick F Sullivan, Swedish Schizophrenia Consortium, Jin P Szatkiewicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-10-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4592002?pdf=render