Mutations Causing Complex Disease May under Certain Circumstances Be Protective in an Epidemiological Sense.

Guided by the practice of classical epidemiology, research into the genetic basis of complex disease has usually taken for granted the dictum that causative mutations are invariably over-represented among clinically affected as compared to unaffected individuals. However, we show that this suppositi...

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Main Authors: Sabine Siegert, Andreas Wolf, David N Cooper, Michael Krawczak, Michael Nothnagel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4498598?pdf=render