Admixture mapping analysis in the context of GWAS with GAW18 data.
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SUBMITTER: Chen M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4143627 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Admixture mapping analysis in the context of GWAS with GAW18 data.
Chen Mengjie M Yang Can C Li Cong C Hou Lin L Chen Xiaowei X Zhao Hongyu H
BMC proceedings 20140617 Suppl 1
Admixture mapping is a disease-mapping strategy to identify disease susceptibility variants in an admixed population that is a result of mating between 2 historically separated populations differing in allele frequencies and disease prevalence. With the increasing availability of high-density genotyping data generated in genome-wide association studies, it is of interest to investigate how to apply admixture mapping in the context of the genome-wide association studies and how to adjust for admi ...[more]
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