Weighting sequence variants based on their annotation increases power of whole-genome association studies.

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Published in Nat Genet on February 08, 2016

Authors

Gardar Sveinbjornsson1,2, Anders Albrechtsen3, Florian Zink1, Sigurjón A Gudjonsson1, Asmundur Oddson1, Gísli Másson1, Hilma Holm1,4, Augustine Kong1,2, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir1,5, Patrick Sulem1, Daniel F Gudbjartsson1,2, Kari Stefansson1,5

Author Affiliations

1: deCODE Genetics/Amgen, Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland.
2: School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
3: Department of Biology, Computational and RNA Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
4: Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Landspitali, National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
5: Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

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