Trans-ethnic study design approaches for fine-mapping

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1330-1336

  Asimit, Jennifer L ^a   Hatzikotoulas, Konstantinos ^a   McCarthy, Mark ^b   Morris, Andrew P ^b,c   Zeggini, Eleftheria ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRICAN; ALLELE; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC PATIENT; EAST ASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN; FINE MAPPING RESOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84956891115     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2016.1     Document Type: Article

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