Principal component analysis characterizes shared pathogenetics from genome-wide association studies.

Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have recently revealed many genetic associations that are shared between different diseases. We propose a method, disPCA, for genome-wide characterization of shared and distinct risk factors between and within disease classes. It flips the conventional GWAS pa...

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Main Authors: Diana Chang, Alon Keinan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-09-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4161298?pdf=render