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Iain Mathieson,
Gil McVean
(2012).
Differential confounding of rare and common variants in spatially structured populations.
Nature Genetics
, 44
(3)
, 243-246.
https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.1074
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- 10.1038/ng.1074