Population Genetics Identifies Challenges in Analyzing Rare Variants

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 145-148

  Johnston, Henry Richard ^a   Hu, Yijuan ^a   Cutler, David J ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Error rates; Rare variants; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EXOME; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; POPULATION GENETICS; STUDY DESIGN; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN GENOME;

GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS;

EID: 84925137145     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21881     Document Type: Article

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