genome-wide association

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association
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/əˌsəʊ.siˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/əˌsoʊ.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
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In the future, hypothesis-free approaches such asgenome-wideassociationstudies will come to the fore.
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To carry out agenome-wideassociationstudy, researchers use two groups of participants: people with the disease being studied and similar people without the disease.
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Genome-wideassociationanalysis identifies loci for type 2 diabetes and triglyceride levels.
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These are due to the advance ofgenome-wideassociationstudies from the ability to create and sequence genomic libraries.
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By contrastgenome-wideassociationappear close to the reverse, with only one false positive for every 100 or more false-negatives.
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Meta-analysis ofgenome-wideassociationdata identifies 4 novel susceptibility loci for colorectal cancer.
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Agenome-wideassociationstudy identifies novel colorectal cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 10p14 and 8q23.3.
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Agenome-wideassociationscan identifies three colorectal cancer susceptibility loci.
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Many diseases are associated with single-nucleotide polymorphisms, and usinggenome-wideassociationstudies to study such biomarkers is often a goal of biobank research.
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On the other hand, fetal programming has a promise for lling the gap between the familial studies andgenome-wideassociationstudies.
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However, linkage analysis andgenome-wideassociationstudies have found few reproducible risk factors.
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Genome-wideassociationstudies, which search for mutated alleles with low penetrance in sporadic cases, have now yielded many positive results.
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A healthy person donates a biological specimen and agrees to have that specimen and associated data put into agenome-wideassociationstudy.
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Ingenome-wideassociationstudies, the additive (or codominant) version of the test is often used.
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The aforementionedgenome-wideassociationstudies can identify candidate genes stemming from many functional traits.
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Multiplegenome-wideassociationscans may be conducted in the future to identify key risk variants.
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This firstgenome-wideassociationstudy of bipolar disorder shows that several genes, each of modest effect, reproducibly influence disease risk.
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Another popular scientific method is agenome-wideassociationstudy which also leads to the identification of relevant gene variants.
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