Enriching the analysis of genomewide association studies with hierarchical modeling.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on June 26, 2007

Authors

Gary K Chen1, John S Witte

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1: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0794, USA.

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