Evaluation of the metabochip genotyping array in African Americans and implications for fine mapping of GWAS-identified loci: the PAGE study.

The Metabochip is a custom genotyping array designed for replication and fine mapping of metabolic, cardiovascular, and anthropometric trait loci and includes low frequency variation content identified from the 1000 Genomes Project. It has 196,725 SNPs concentrated in 257 genomic regions. We evaluat...

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Main Authors: Steven Buyske, Ying Wu, Cara L Carty, Iona Cheng, Themistocles L Assimes, Logan Dumitrescu, Lucia A Hindorff, Sabrina Mitchell, Jose Luis Ambite, Eric Boerwinkle, Petra Buzkova, Chris S Carlson, Barbara Cochran, David Duggan, Charles B Eaton, Megan D Fesinmeyer, Nora Franceschini, Jeffrey Haessler, Nancy Jenny, Hyun Min Kang, Charles Kooperberg, Yi Lin, Loic Le Marchand, Tara C Matise, Jennifer G Robinson, Carlos Rodriguez, Fredrick R Schumacher, Benjamin F Voight, Alicia Young, Teri A Manolio, Karen L Mohlke, Christopher A Haiman, Ulrike Peters, Dana C Crawford, Kari E North
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3335090?pdf=render