A Simple Test of Class-Level Genetic Association Can Reveal Novel Cardiometabolic Trait Loci.

BACKGROUND:Characterizing the genetic determinants of complex diseases can be further augmented by incorporating knowledge of underlying structure or classifications of the genome, such as newly developed mappings of protein-coding genes, epigenetic marks, enhancer elements and non-coding RNAs. METH...

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Main Authors: Jing Qian, Sara Nunez, Eric Reed, Muredach P Reilly, Andrea S Foulkes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4747495?pdf=render