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SUBMITTER: Buil A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2795904 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Buil Alfonso A Martinez-Perez Angel A Perera-Lluna Alexandre A Rib Leonor L Caminal Pere P Soria Jose Manuel JM
BMC proceedings 20091215
Genome-wide association studies are widely used today to discover genetic factors that modify the risk of complex diseases. Usually, these methods work in a SNP-by-SNP fashion. We present a gene-based test that can be applied in the context of genome-wide association studies. We compare both strategies, SNP-based and gene-based, in a sample of cases and controls for rheumatoid arthritis.We obtained different results using each strategy. The SNP-based test found the PTPN22 gene while the gene-bas ...[more]