META-GSA: Combining Findings from Gene-Set Analyses across Several Genome-Wide Association Studies.

Gene-set analysis (GSA) methods are used as complementary approaches to genome-wide association studies (GWASs). The single marker association estimates of a predefined set of genes are either contrasted with those of all remaining genes or with a null non-associated background. To pool the p-values...

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Main Authors: Albert Rosenberger, Stefanie Friedrichs, Christopher I Amos, Paul Brennan, Gordon Fehringer, Joachim Heinrich, Rayjean J Hung, Thomas Muley, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Angela Risch, Heike Bickeböller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4621033?pdf=render