Weighting sequence variants based on their annotation increases power of whole-genome association studies

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 314-317

  Sveinbjornsson, Gardar ^a,b   Albrechtsen, Anders ^c   Zink, Florian ^a   Gudjonsson, Sigurjón A ^a   Oddson, Asmundur ^a   Másson, Gísli ^a   Holm, Hilma ^a,d   Kong, Augustine ^a,b   Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur ^a,b   Sulem, Patrick ^a   Gudbjartsson, Daniel F ^a,b   Stefansson, Kari ^a,b  

^a DECODE GENETICS   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; EXOME; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; ICELAND; ICELANDER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; START CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; ICELAND; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84959575456     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3507     Document Type: Article

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