Predicting signatures of "synthetic associations" and "natural associations" from empirical patterns of human genetic variation.

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have in recent years discovered thousands of associated markers for hundreds of phenotypes. However, associated loci often only explain a relatively small fraction of heritability and the link between association and causality has yet to be uncovered for most l...

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Main Authors: Diana Chang, Alon Keinan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3390358?pdf=render