Ancestry estimation and control of population stratification for sequence-based association studies
✍ Scribed by Wang, Chaolong; Zhan, Xiaowei; Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer; Kang, Hyun Min; Stambolian, Dwight; Chew, Emily Y; Branham, Kari E; Heckenlively, John; Fulton, Robert; Wilson, Richard K; Mardis, Elaine R; Lin, Xihong; Swaroop, Anand; Zöllner, Sebastian; Abecasis, Gonçalo R
- Book ID
- 121663245
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 916 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1061-4036
- DOI
- 10.1038/ng.2924
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