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SUBMITTER: Xu M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4143699 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Mengyuan M Wang Harold Z HZ Guo Wei W Qin Haide H Shugart Yin Y YY
BMC proceedings 20140617 Suppl 1
The application of family-based tests to whole-genome sequenced data provides a new window on the role of rare variant alleles in the etiology of disease. By applying family-based tests to these data, we can now identify rare variants associated with disease. Approaches for common variants, by contrast, require large sample sizes for power, and are powerless when faced with rare variants. When we tested Yip et al's 2011 family-based association tests for rare variants on pedigrees from the Genet ...[more]