A combined reference panel from the 1000 Genomes and UK10K projects improved rare variant imputation in European and Chinese samples

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chou, Wen Chi ^a,b   Zheng, Hou Feng ^c   Cheng, Chia Ho ^a   Yan, Han ^d   Wang, Li ^c   Han, Fang ^d   Richards, J Brent ^e,f   Karasik, David ^a   Kiel, Douglas P ^a,b   Hsu, Yi Hsiang ^a,b,g  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HEART; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; CHINA; EUROPE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; PROCEDURES; STANDARD; STANDARDS;

CHINA; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 85006986098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep39313     Document Type: Article

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