Leveraging Polygenic Functional Enrichment to Improve GWAS Power

Gleb Kichaev; Gaurav Bhatia; Po‐Ru Loh; Steven Gazal; Kathryn S. Burch; Malika Freund; Armin Schoech; Bogdan Paşaniuc; Alkes L. Price

doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.11.008

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Genome-wide association studyComputer scienceComputational biologyBiologyGeneticsSingle-nucleotide polymorphismGenotype

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Year: 2018
Type: article
Volume: 104
Issue: 1
Pages: 65-75
Citations: 1025
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                                    Gleb Kichaev, 
                                
                                    Gaurav Bhatia, 
                                
                                    Po‐Ru Loh
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2018). 
                            Leveraging Polygenic Functional Enrichment to Improve GWAS Power. 
                            The American Journal of Human Genetics
                            , 104
                            (1)
                            , 65-75.
                            https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.11.008
                        

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.11.008