Heterogeneity in meta-analyses of genome-wide association investigations.

BACKGROUND: Meta-analysis is the systematic and quantitative synthesis of effect sizes and the exploration of their diversity across different studies. Meta-analyses are increasingly applied to synthesize data from genome-wide association (GWA) studies and from other teams that try to replicate the...

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Main Authors: John P A Ioannidis, Nikolaos A Patsopoulos, Evangelos Evangelou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1950790?pdf=render