Abstract. Despite the desirable information contained in complex pedigree datasets, analysis methods struggle to efficiently process these datasets. The attractiveness of pedigree ...
Bonnie Kirkpatrick, Javier Rosa, Eran Halperin, Ri...
Background: Population structure is an important cause leading to inconsistent results in population-based association studies (PBAS) of human diseases. Various statistical method...
Background: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) aim to identify genetic variants (usually single nucleotide polymorphisms [SNPs]) across the entire human genome that are associ...
Huixiao Hong, Zhenqiang Su, Weigong Ge, Leming M. ...
Background: Recent studies have shown that the patterns of linkage disequilibrium observed in human populations have a block-like structure, and a small subset of SNPs (called tag...
Yao-Ting Huang, Kui Zhang, Ting Chen, Kun-Mao Chao
Background: A common approach to understanding the genetic basis of complex traits is through identification of associated quantitative trait loci (QTL). Fine mapping QTLs require...
Lukas A. Mueller, Adri A. Mills, Beth Skwarecki, R...