Gene-based tests of association.

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are now used routinely to identify SNPs associated with complex human phenotypes. In several cases, multiple variants within a gene contribute independently to disease risk. Here we introduce a novel Gene-Wide Significance (GWiS) test that uses greedy Bayesian...

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Main Authors: Hailiang Huang, Pritam Chanda, Alvaro Alonso, Joel S Bader, Dan E Arking
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-07-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21829371/pdf/?tool=EBI