A New Method for Detecting Associations with Rare Copy-Number Variants

Copy number variants (CNVs) play an important role in the etiology of many diseases such as cancers and psychiatric disorders. Due to a modest marginal effect size or the rarity of the CNVs, collapsing rare CNVs together and collectively evaluating their effect serves as a key approach to evaluating...

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Main Authors: Tzeng, Jung-Ying, Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Sullivan, Patrick F., Szatkiewicz, Jin P.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4592002/