Fast and Accurate Approximation to Significance Tests in Genome-Wide Association Studies
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- 1 September 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Vol. 106 (495) , 846-857
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies commonly involve simultaneous tests of millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) for disease association. The SNPs in nearby genomic regions, however, are of...Keywords
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