Multiethnic genetic association studies improve power for locus discovery.

To date, genome-wide association studies have focused almost exclusively on populations of European ancestry. These studies continue with the advent of next-generation sequencing, designed to systematically catalog and test low-frequency variation for a role in disease. A complementary approach woul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sara L Pulit, Benjamin F Voight, Paul I W de Bakker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-09-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2935880?pdf=render