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Complex disease: Rare treasures
Mon, 2010-03-15 09:00 — sciencestaff
Rare variants distributed across large genomic regions make a substantial contribution to the genetic basis of complex diseases, according to a simulated genome-wide association (GWA) study that is backed by real disease-mapping data.GWA studies are based on the assumption that complex diseases are caused
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