Clustering by genetic ancestry using genome-wide SNP data

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Population stratification can cause spurious associations in a genome-wide association study (GWAS), and occurs when differences in allele frequencies of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are due to ancestral differences between...

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Main Authors: Steinberg Martin H, Perls Thomas T, Baldwin Clinton T, Hartley Stephen W, Solovieff Nadia, Sebastiani Paola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-12-01
Series:BMC Genetics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/11/108