Eliciting priors and relaxing the single causal variant assumption in colocalisation analyses.

Horizontal integration of summary statistics from different GWAS traits can be used to evaluate evidence for their shared genetic causality. One popular method to do this is a Bayesian method, coloc, which is attractive in requiring only GWAS summary statistics and no linkage disequilibrium estimate...

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Main Author: Chris Wallace
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-04-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008720