High trans-ethnic replicability of GWAS results implies common causal variants.
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have detected many disease associations. However, the reported variants tend to explain small fractions of risk, and there are doubts about issues such as the portability of findings over different ethnic groups or the relative roles of rare versus common varia...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-06-01
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| Series: | PLoS Genetics |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3681663?pdf=render |