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SUBMITTER: Visscher PM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3257326 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Visscher Peter M PM Brown Matthew A MA McCarthy Mark I MI Yang Jian J
American journal of human genetics 20120101 1
The past five years have seen many scientific and biological discoveries made through the experimental design of genome-wide association studies (GWASs). These studies were aimed at detecting variants at genomic loci that are associated with complex traits in the population and, in particular, at detecting associations between common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and common diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, auto-immune diseases, and psychiatric disorders. We start by giving a nu ...[more]