GPA: a statistical approach to prioritizing GWAS results by integrating pleiotropy and annotation.

Results from Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) have shown that complex diseases are often affected by many genetic variants with small or moderate effects. Identifications of these risk variants remain a very challenging problem. There is a need to develop more powerful statistical methods to l...

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Main Authors: Dongjun Chung, Can Yang, Cong Li, Joel Gelernter, Hongyu Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-11-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004787