Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

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Missing heritability problemHeritabilityGenome-wide association studyGenetic architectureGenetic associationBiologyGeneticsDiseaseEvolutionary biologyComputational biologyData scienceGenetic variantsComputer scienceMedicineQuantitative trait locusSingle-nucleotide polymorphismGeneGenotype

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Year: 2009
Type: review
Volume: 461
Issue: 7265
Pages: 747-753
Citations: 8347
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                                    Teri A. Manolio, 
                                
                                    Francis S. Collins, 
                                
                                    Nancy J. Cox
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2009). 
                            Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases. 
                            Nature
                            , 461
                            (7265)
                            , 747-753.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08494
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/nature08494