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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-10-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4592002?pdf=render |