Statistical power and utility of meta-analysis methods for cross-phenotype genome-wide association studies.

Advances in recent genome wide association studies (GWAS) suggest that pleiotropic effects on human complex traits are widespread. A number of classic and recent meta-analysis methods have been used to identify genetic loci with pleiotropic effects, but the overall performance of these methods is no...

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Main Authors: Zhaozhong Zhu, Verneri Anttila, Jordan W Smoller, Phil H Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5832233?pdf=render