Bayesian refinement of association signals for 14 loci in 3 common diseases.

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Published in Nat Genet on October 28, 2012

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Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium1, Julian B Maller, Gilean McVean, Jake Byrnes, Damjan Vukcevic, Kimmo Palin, Zhan Su, Joanna M M Howson, Adam Auton, Simon Myers, Andrew Morris, Matti Pirinen, Matthew A Brown, Paul R Burton, Mark J Caulfield, Alastair Compston, Martin Farrall, Alistair S Hall, Andrew T Hattersley, Adrian V S Hill, Christopher G Mathew, Marcus Pembrey, Jack Satsangi, Michael R Stratton, Jane Worthington, Nick Craddock, Matthew Hurles, Willem Ouwehand, Miles Parkes, Nazneen Rahman, Audrey Duncanson, John A Todd, Dominic P Kwiatkowski, Nilesh J Samani, Stephen C L Gough, Mark I McCarthy, Panagiotis Deloukas, Peter Donnelly

Author Affiliations

1: The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

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