Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2812048 | The American Journal of Human Genetics | 2007 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Population stratification can be a serious obstacle in the analysis of genomewide association studies. We propose a method for evaluating the significance of association scores in whole-genome cohorts with stratification. Our approach is a randomization test akin to a standard permutation test. It conditions on the genotype matrix and thus takes into account not only the population structure but also the complex linkage disequilibrium structure of the genome. As we show in simulation experiments, our method achieves higher power and significantly better control over false-positive rates than do existing methods. In addition, it can be easily applied to whole-genome association studies.
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Authors
Gad Kimmel, Michael I. Jordan, Eran Halperin, Ron Shamir, Richard M. Karp,