Interpreting Meta-Analyses of Genome-Wide Association Studies

Meta-analysis is an increasingly popular tool for combining multiple genome-wide association studies in a single analysis to identify associations with small effect sizes. The effect sizes between studies in a meta-analysis may differ and these differences, or heterogeneity, can be caused by many fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Han, Buhm, Eskin, Eleazar
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291559/