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SUBMITTER: Wittkowski KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3643309 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wittkowski Knut M KM Sonakya Vikas V Song Tingting T Seybold Martin P MP Keddache Mehdi M Durner Martina M
Pharmacogenomics 20130301 4
<h4>Background</h4>Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have had limited success when applied to complex diseases. Analyzing SNPs individually requires several large studies to integrate the often divergent results. In the presence of epistasis, multivariate approaches based on the linear model (including stepwise logistic regression) often have low sensitivity and generate an abundance of artifacts.<h4>Methods</h4>Recent advances in distributed and parallel processing spurred methodological a ...[more]