Strategies and issues in the detection of pathway enrichment in genome-wide association studies.

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Published in Hum Genet on May 01, 2009

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Mun-Gwan Hong1, Yudi Pawitan, Patrik K E Magnusson, Jonathan A Prince

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1: Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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