BMCBI
2011
12 years 12 months ago
2011
Background: Illumina’s Infinium SNP BeadChips are extensively used in both small and large-scale genetic studies. A fundamental step in any analysis is the processing of raw all...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 12 months ago
2011
Background: With the advent of cost-effective genotyping technologies, genome-wide association studies allow researchers to examine hundreds of thousands of single nucleotide poly...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Background: Genome-wide association studies have been successful in finding common variants influencing common traits. However, these associations only account for a fraction of t...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Background: Over the last few years, genome-wide association (GWA) studies became a tool of choice for the identification of loci associated with complex traits. Currently, impute...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Background: Despite the recent success of genome-wide association studies in identifying novel loci contributing effects to complex human traits, such as type 2 diabetes and obesi...