Establishing an adjusted p-value threshold to control the family-wide type 1 error in genome wide association studies
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>By assaying hundreds of thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms, genome wide association studies (GWAS) allow for a powerful, unbiased review of the entire genome to localize common genetic variants that influence health and dis...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-10-01
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Series: | BMC Genomics |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/516 |