Meta-analysis for Discovering Rare-Variant Associations: Statistical Methods and Software Programs.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on June 18, 2015

Authors

Zheng-Zheng Tang1, Dan-Yu Lin2

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA.
2: Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7420, USA. Electronic address: lin@bios.unc.edu.

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