10 Years of GWAS Discovery: Biology, Function, and Translation

2017/07/01 by Peter M. Visscher, Naomi R. Wray, Qian Zhang +4 · 4,131 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biology #Computational biology #Computer science #Data science #Gene #Genetics #Genome-wide association study #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Genotype #Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research #Machine Learning in Bioinformatics #Single-nucleotide polymorphism #Translation (biology)

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.06.005

published in The American Journal of Human Genetics 101(1), 5-22 (Elsevier BV)

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