Beware of risk for increased false positive rates in genome-wide association studies for phenotypic variability

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Shen, Xia ^a,b   Carlborg, örjan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b DALARNA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84881550737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00093     Document Type: Article

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