The variant call format provides efficient and robust storage of GWAS summary statistics

The variant call format provides efficient and robust storage of GWAS summary statistics

Abstract GWAS summary statistics are fundamental for a variety of research applications yet no common storage format has been widely adopted. Existing tabular formats ambiguously or incompletely store information about genetic variants and associations, lack essential metadata and are typically not...

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Main Authors: Matthew S. Lyon, Shea J. Andrews, Ben Elsworth, Tom R. Gaunt, Gibran Hemani, Edoardo Marcora
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-01-01
Series:Genome Biology
Subjects:
GWAS
VCF
Summary statistics
Storage format
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-020-02248-0

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-020-02248-0

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