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http://dx.doi.org/10.5808/GI.2011.9.1.001

Post-GWAS Strategies

Kim, Sang-Soo (Department of Bioinformatics, Soongsil University)
Bhak, Jong (Personal Genomics Institute)

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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.

Keywords

post-GWAS; personal genomics; NGS; SNP;

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