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SUBMITTER: Wang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4739182 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Shuang S Zhang Yuchen Y Dai Wenrui W Lauter Kristin K Kim Miran M Tang Yuzhe Y Xiong Hongkai H Jiang Xiaoqian X
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20151006 2
<h4>Motivation</h4>Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been widely used in discovering the association between genotypes and phenotypes. Human genome data contain valuable but highly sensitive information. Unprotected disclosure of such information might put individual's privacy at risk. It is important to protect human genome data. Exact logistic regression is a bias-reduction method based on a penalized likelihood to discover rare variants that are associated with disease susceptibilit ...[more]