A new statistic and its power to infer membership in a genome-wide association study using genotype frequencies

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Genome-wide association studyStatisticBiologyGenotypeStatistical powerStatisticsSingle-nucleotide polymorphismGenetic associationTest statisticSample size determinationAllele frequencySNPGeneticsStatistical hypothesis testingComputational biologyMathematicsGene

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Year: 2009
Type: article
Volume: 41
Issue: 11
Pages: 1253-1257
Citations: 115
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                                    Kevin B. Jacobs, 
                                
                                    Meredith Yeager, 
                                
                                    Sholom Wacholder
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2009). 
                            A new statistic and its power to infer membership in a genome-wide association study using genotype frequencies. 
                            Nature Genetics
                            , 41
                            (11)
                            , 1253-1257.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.455
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/ng.455