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Post-GWAS Strategies

  • Accepted : 2011.03.07
  • Published : 2011.03.31
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Abstract

Genome-wide association (GWA) studies are the method of choice for discovering loci associated with common diseases. More than a thousand GWA studies have reported successful identification of statistically significant association signals in human genomes for a variety of complex diseases. In this review, I discuss some of the issues related to the future of GWA studies and their biomedical applications.

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