Comparison of methods to account for relatedness in genome-wide association studies with family-based data.
Approaches based on linear mixed models (LMMs) have recently gained popularity for modelling population substructure and relatedness in genome-wide association studies. In the last few years, a bewildering variety of different LMM methods/software packages have been developed, but it is not always c...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-07-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4102448?pdf=render |