Empirical estimation of genome-wide significance thresholds based on the 1000 Genomes Project data set

To assess the statistical significance of associations between variants and traits, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) should employ an appropriate threshold that accounts for the massive burden of multiple testing in the study. Although most studies in the current literature commonly set a geno...

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Main Authors: Kanai, Masahiro, Tanaka, Toshihiro, Okada, Yukinori
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5090169/