Recent methods for polygenic analysis of genome-wide data implicate an important effect of common variants on cardiovascular disease risk

• Main Authors: Wills Amanda G (Author), Simonson Matthew A (Author), Keller Matthew C (Author), McQueen Matthew B (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Traditional genome-wide association studies are generally limited in their ability explain a large portion of genetic risk for most common diseases. We sought to use both traditional GWAS methods, as well as more recently developed p...