In search of causal variants: refining disease association signals using cross-population contrasts

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Genome-wide association (GWA) using large numbers of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is now a powerful, state-of-the-art approach to mapping human disease genes. When a GWA study detects association between a SNP and the disea...

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Main Authors: Rice John P, Hinrichs Anthony L, Grucza Richard A, Goate Alison M, Saccone Scott F, Saccone Nancy L, Bierut Laura J
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-08-01
Series:BMC Genetics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/9/58