A new testing strategy to identify rare variants with either risk or protective effect on disease.

Rapid advances in sequencing technologies set the stage for the large-scale medical sequencing efforts to be performed in the near future, with the goal of assessing the importance of rare variants in complex diseases. The discovery of new disease susceptibility genes requires powerful statistical m...

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Main Authors: Iuliana Ionita-Laza, Joseph D Buxbaum, Nan M Laird, Christoph Lange
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-02-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3033379?pdf=render

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