The impact of phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity on results of genome wide association studies of complex diseases.

Phenotypic misclassification (between cases) has been shown to reduce the power to detect association in genetic studies. However, it is conceivable that complex traits are heterogeneous with respect to individual genetic susceptibility and disease pathophysiology, and that the effect of heterogenei...

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Main Authors: Mirko Manchia, Jeffrey Cullis, Gustavo Turecki, Guy A Rouleau, Rudolf Uher, Martin Alda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3795757?pdf=render